**Platform Engineer - Kubernetes / Karpenter / AWS** **Anywhere** **Type:** Permanent **Category:** DevOps **Industry:** Financial Services **Workplace Type:** Remote **Reference ID:** JN -042025-101902 **Date Posted:** 04/29/2025 **Shortcut:** http://careers.eliassen.com/fHHHM3 + Description + Recommended Jobs **Description:** ** This is a Full-Time Opportunity directly our end Client ** ** 100% Remote - Should be based in Eastern OR Central Time-zone ** **_This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis._** Our Financial Client is on a Digital Transformation journey to strategize, implement, and automate end-to-end product delivery using turn-key technologies. To support this journey, they are seeking an Engineer with a passion for programming and knowledge in Cloud technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, in general, and AWS-specific cloud components such as EC2, EKS, AWS Lamda functions, API Gateway, and RDS. The engineer/Developer is expected to provide strategy and implement enterprise-scale service mesh and sidecar architectures with a focus on scalability, performance, security, and availability. **Responsibilities:** • Work as an individual contributor within the Cloud development platform team, focused on developing and maintaining an in-house built CI/CD automation pipeline • Highly advanced knowledge of Release automation using CI/CD products that is applied to advance the goals and objectives of the team and department • Recognized by the team as an expert in CI/CD automation • Deploy critical infrastructure components through Infrastructure-as-Code tooling across multiple environments using Terraform integrated through Azure DevOps • Manages activities within a department, developing tactical plans for strategy and implementation for release automation for varying maturity levels of software products • Support the development of compelling features using modern tools and technologies with a focus on building future-proof systems that perform at scale • Architecting and developing stateless and stateful applications using AWS cloud technologies • Provide software development knowledge with respect to cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming • Establishes Cloud Infrastructure Design best practices, templates, and processes • Collaborates with external and internal partners, participates, and suggests design and architectural decisions • Other activities as may be assigned by your manager **Experience Requirements:** • Minimum of 6+ years of industry and/or relevant experience, typically with 1+ years in a Senior Associate level role or external equivalent • Experience working on automation and developmental works related to infrastructure operations • Extensive experience in developing CI/CD Pipelines using GitOps methodologies and technologies such as FluxCD, ArgoCD • Experience in working and implementing Kubernetes and Service mesh technologies such as Istio, LinkerD for communication between services • Experience in implementing Karpenter for Scaling of API’s in the Cloud • Proficient in various AWS cloud components for designing and building stateful and stateless applications • Terraform expertise building IaaC • Azure DevOps knowledge is a plus **Education Requirements:** Bachelor’s degree in related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience. _Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range._ _W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality._ _Please be advised- If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please confirm that they have an Eliassen.com email address and never provide personal or financial information to anyone who is not clearly associated with Eliassen Group. If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact InfoSec@eliassen.com._ _About Eliassen Group:_ _Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate._ _Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status._ _Don’t miss out on our referral program! If we hire a candidate that you refer us to then you can be eligible for a $1,000 referral check!_