Senior AWS DevOps Engineer - CKA

VARITE INC is a global staffing and IT consulting company, and they are seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to support a large-scale healthcare platform. The role involves designing, building, and managing Kubernetes-based workloads on AWS, as well as implementing CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and ensuring system security and compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and manage AWS‐based Kubernetes platforms
• Own end‐to‐end Kubernetes cluster operations (EKS)
• Implement and enhance CI/CD and IaC automation
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of platforms
• Drive DevOps and SRE best practices
• Support healthcare workloads with strong security and compliance controls
• Collaborate closely with application, security, and architecture teams

Requirements:

• CKA – Certified Kubernetes Administrator (Active & Valid) – MUST HAVE
• Strong hands‐on experience managing production‐grade Kubernetes clusters (minimum 3–4 years)
• Expertise in Kubernetes architecture, scheduling, networking, and storage
• Cluster provisioning, upgrades, patching, and scaling
• Troubleshooting pod, node, and cluster‐level issues
• Hands‐on with EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
• Helm charts, Kustomize
• Kubernetes RBAC, secrets, config maps
• Deep experience with Docker and container lifecycle management
• Extensive experience designing and operating workloads on AWS
• Strong hands‐on with EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM
• ALB/NLB, Auto Scaling
• S3, EBS, EFS
• CloudWatch, CloudTrail
• Good understanding of AWS networking, security, and cost optimization
• Strong hands‐on experience with Terraform (mandatory)
• Experience in writing reusable Terraform modules
• Managing multi‐environment infrastructure (Dev/Test/Prod)
• Proven experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines
• Hands‐on with tools such as Jenkins / GitLab CI / GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps
• Strong Git practices (branching, PRs, release strategies)
• Automated build, test, security scan, and deployment pipelines
• Experience implementing image scanning, vulnerability management
• Secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager / Vault)
• Knowledge of Kubernetes security best practices
• IAM, least‐privilege access, network policies
• Hands‐on experience with Prometheus, Grafana
• ELK / OpenSearch
• Setting up logging, monitoring, alerting, and SRE‐style dashboards
• Experience with incident management and production support
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language: Python / Bash / Shell
• Ability to automate operational and deployment workflows
• 9–12 years of overall IT experience
• Strong production support mindset with ownership attitude
• Experience working in Agile / DevOps delivery models
• Strong communication skills for client interactions
• Cross‐functional collaboration (Security, App, Infra teams)
• AWS certifications (DevOps Engineer / Solutions Architect) – Good to have
• CloudFormation exposure is a plus
• Exposure to healthcare‐grade compliance (HIPAA, PHI security) is a strong plus