What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior DevOps Engineer position at VDart, Inc.?
Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Denver, CO-Onsite
Duration: 7 Months
Skills:
Job Description:
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
Keywords: DevOps, AWS, EKS, Kubernetes , Argo CD