DevOps Engineer

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
1. k8s admin
2. AWS fundamentals
3. Splunk / datadog

Job Description/ Responsibilities:
4+ years managing Kubernetes clusters in production (EKS preferred)
Hands-on experience with GitOps tooling Flux CD and/or Argo CD
Proficiency writing Terraform modules and Helm charts
Experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent)
Strong AWS fundamentals VPC, IAM, EC2, MSK, EKS node groups
Working knowledge of observability platforms (Datadog, Dynatrace, or similar)
Comfort operating in Agile/sprint-based engineering teams

Nice to Have:
Experience with Linkerd or other service mesh technologies
Familiarity with Jsonnet or CUE for configuration management
Hands-on FinOps or cluster cost optimisation experience (Kubecost, ScaleOps)
Experience migrating ingress controllers at scale
Amazon MSK administration and Kafka operations knowledge
Okta or SSO/IdP integration experience
Blue-green or canary deployment patterns for Kubernetes upgrades
Familiarity with application architecture (Java and or Python)