What are the responsibilities and job description for the Containers / EKS Specialist position at VeeRteq Solutions LLC?
Title: Containers / EKS Specialist Location: Remote (US) Duration: 18 Weeks EKS platform design and golden cluster implementation. The work requires deep Kubernetes expertise but operates within well-defined AWS service boundaries. Strong EKS, CNI, and Terraform experience. Customer-facing and high-visibility, strong communication skills. Key Responsibilities
- Assess current EKS landscape (20 clusters) and design consolidation strategy
- Evaluate and resolve CNI and service mesh decisions
- Design and implement the Golden Cluster template using Terraform
- Implement CNI, network policies, and service mesh
- Design ingress controller strategy and persistent storage
- Define pilot scope and deploy/validate pilot workload end-to-end
- Design EKS upgrade procedures and cluster lifecycle runbook
- Deploy GitHub Actions Runner Controller on EKS if adopted
- Amazon EKS - deep operational experience
- Kubernetes - RBAC, namespaces, PodSecurityStandards
- CNI - VPC CNI, Cilium, Calico
- Service mesh - Istio (Ambient/sidecar), Cilium mesh
- Ingress - ALB Ingress Controller, Nginx, Istio Gateway
- Helm, Terraform - EKS module development
- Persistent storage - EFS CSI, EBS CSI, Velero
- Python microservices experience preferred