Kubernetes Administrator

W2 Contract

Hybrid (3 days office in a week) in Boston, MA

Role Overview:

• Manage 30–40 Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS and Helm

• Focus on cluster administration in large-scale environments

Key Requirements:

• 5 years as an EKS / Kubernetes Cluster Admin

• Experience with Helm and production-scale clusters

• Exposure to CI/CD pipeline environments

✅ Top priority: Strong, hands-on EKS cluster admin experience

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)

Thank you

Vinod

vinod@themesoft.com