Primary & Mandatory Skill: AWS Cloud, EKS, Terraform, Gitlab CI/CD, Scripting

Level: SA

Client Round (Yes/ No): Yes

Location Constraint if any : Chennai / Bangalore

Shift timing: 1:30pm to 11:30pm IST

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Primary Responsibilities

- Design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform (modules, state management, CI/CD-driven applies)

- Manage EKS clusters - upgrades, node group configuration, autoscaling, add-ons, and IRSA

- Build and maintain VPC architectures - subnets, route tables, transit gateway attachments, security groups, NACLs

- Troubleshoot production infrastructure issues across networking, compute, and container orchestration layers

- Write clean, reusable Terraform modules following DRY principles

- Participate in infrastructure code reviews and maintain documentation

Required Experience

- 3+ years managing AWS infrastructure in production (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, S3, Route53, ALB/NLB)

- 3+ years writing Terraform - modules, workspaces/state isolation, remote backends, provider configuration

- Solid EKS experience - cluster lifecycle,



networking (VPC-CNI, Calico), ingress controllers, Helm chart deployments, RBAC

- AWS networking depth - multi-account VPC design, transit gateway, VPC peering, DNS resolution, flow logs, troubleshooting connectivity

- IAM fluency - roles, policies, trust relationships, service-linked roles, cross-account access

- Comfortable working in a Kanban-style team with minimal ceremony

Nice to Have

- Go development - writing CLI tools, automation, or custom controllers

- GitLab CI/CD - pipeline authoring, managing self-hosted GitLab Runners (autoscaling, Docker executors)

- Experience with Kafka, Apache Pinot, or data platform infrastructure

- Familiarity with cost optimization (reserved instances, savings plans, right-sizing)

What You'll Work With

- Terraform (our IaC standard)

- AWS (multi-account, multi-region)

- EKS / Kubernetes

- GitLab (source control + CI/CD)

- Go (team's primary language)

📌 AWS Cloud, EKS, Terraform, Gitlab CI/CD, Scripting (Bangalore Urban)
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