Sr DevOps Engineer

Sr DevOps Engineer
Local to Denver only - 4-5 days a week at client site office

Request for 4 Sr. Devops Engineers Local to Denver only - 4-5 days a week at client site office

Dev Ops
Amazon EKS
ISTIO-Service Mesh
Tuning CPU / Memory
ArgoCD & Rollouts
Kubernetes

Are you local to Denver, CO?
Are you able and willing to be at the client site office location 4-5 days a week?
Do you have strong experience in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, autoscaling, and cloud-native deployments?
Do you have deep expertise in deployment automation, HPA tuning, release reliability, networking, observability, and rollback strategies for large-scale microservices platforms handling high throughput workloads?
Are you able to manage and optimize Amazon EKS clusters?
Do you have strong experience with Istio service mesh?

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong experience in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, autoscaling, and cloud-native deployments.
The role requires deep expertise in deployment automation, HPA tuning, release reliability, networking, observability, and rollback strategies for large-scale microservices platforms handling high throughput workloads. This role will support mission-critical systems requiring safe deployments, dynamic scaling, performance tuning, and production stability.


Key Responsibilities
Manage and optimize Amazon EKS clusters
Configure and tune:
Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)
Cluster Autoscaler
Resource limits / requests
Manage Istio service mesh
Traffic routing
Circuit breaker
Retry / timeout policies
VirtualService / DestinationRule
Gateway configuration
Implement safe deployment strategies:
Blue-Green
Canary
Rolling update
Traffic shifting using Istio / Argo Rollouts
Automated rollback
Automate infrastructure using:
Terraform / CDK / CloudFormation
Bash / Python / Shell scripting
Manage AWS services:
EKS
DynamoDB
S3
IAM
Route53 / DNS
Lambda
CloudWatch
SNS / SQS / EventBridge
Configure logging, monitoring, and alerting
Implement release readiness validation checks
Support production deployments and rollback
Optimize infrastructure for:
Performance
Cost
Scalability
Implement automation for:
Cluster health checks
Deployment validation
Environment readiness
Rollback triggers
Work with development teams to support:
Microservices deployments
Containerization
Performance tuning
Failure recovery
Required Skills
Kubernetes / EKS / Istio
Strong experience with Amazon EKS
Strong experience with Istio service mesh
Experience configuring:
VirtualService
DestinationRule
Gateway
Sidecar
Circuit breaker
Retry / timeout
Experience with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)
Experience with Cluster Autoscaler
Experience with Helm / Kustomize
Experience with ArgoCD / Argo Rollouts / GitOps
Deployment & Release
Blue-Green deployments
Canary deployments
Traffic shifting using Istio
Rollback strategies
GitOps workflows
Release automation
AWS Services
DynamoDB
S3
IAM
Route53 / DNS
CloudWatch
Lambda
ELB / ALB / NLB
Automation / Scripting
Bash
Python
Shell scripting
YAML / JSON
Terraform / CDK / CloudFormation
Networking
TCP/IP fundamentals
DNS
VPC / Subnets
Security groups
Load balancers
TLS / SSL certificates
Service mesh networking concepts
Observability / Logging
Datadog / Splunk / Prometheus / Grafana
Metrics dashboards
Alerting setup
Log aggregation
Production Support
Deployment troubleshooting
Rollback handling
Incident response
Capacity planning
Performance tuning
Preferred / Nice to Have
Kafka / streaming systems
High TPS / real-time systems
DynamoDB capacity tuning
Cost optimization in AWS
Multi-cluster / multi-region EKS
Release automation tooling
Service mesh performance tuning