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Cloud Engineer

Zenith Services Inc.
Princeton, NJ Contractor
POSTED ON 3/19/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/14/2026

The Team: This Senior Cloud Engineer will work closely with the other Cloud engineers

and Developers in the Cloud engineering team to improve Kubernetes components and

applications across multiple clusters and troubleshoot issues as needed.

The Impact: The Senior Cloud Engineer will play a consultative role and collaborate

with the Security and Development teams.

Responsibilities:

* Administrate our Kubernetes EKS clusters and their lifecycle, in order to

guarantee a high degree of reliability, security, scalability, and confidence at any

given time, provide support, improve and implement Kubernetes internal

components and applications on top of multiple EKS clusters and troubleshoot

and triage issues as they arise.

* Work closely with various teams across the organization, including the security

team, development team, and operations team for any AWS infrastructure

request.

* Being able to excel with minimal technical supervision, embrace reliability

constraints, be proactive, contribute improvements to the platform.

* Encourage best practice policies, ability to adapt to various technologies and be

willing to get involved with the Kubernetes and AWS community as needed.

* Assist in troubleshooting EC2, VPC networking, DNS and storage issues and

make recommendations for cost saving options and growth.

* Participate in a shared on-call rotation.

* Lead and mentor junior team members.

Basic Qualifications:

* 5 - 7 Years' experience in infrastructure design/implementation that directly

aligns with the specific responsibilities for this position. (Required).

* 2 years administering a EKS Kubernetes cluster in a production environment

* Strong experience with identifying and remediating Kubernetes vulnerabilities.

* Experience with maintenance such as Kubernetes patches and upgrades.

* Experience managing multiple Kubernetes EKS clusters in a production

environment

* Experience in AI technologies such as AWS bedrock, Azure OpenAI and GCP

Vertex.

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* Strong Implementation and architecture experience in AWS services (e.g.

EC2, ECS, ELB, RDS, EFS, EBS, Route53, VPC, IAM, CloudFront,

CloudWatch, Lambda, S3.

* Expertise hands on experience and knowledge of various AWS cloud on prem

datacenter services.

* Strong experience in container platform infrastructure in AWS (EKS, ECS,

Fargate)

* Clear understanding of container technologies and the tools/challenges around

them.

* Ability to code/script in Python/Shell/PowerShell Language.

* Senior level experience managing and administering Linux/Windows based

systems.

* Extensive AWS CloudFormation knowledge (YAML and/or JSON).

* Systems monitoring experience (Prometheus, Grafana preferred).

* Experience working with GitHub and supporting CI/CD pipelines.

* Experience delivering projects via Agile methodologies

* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

* AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate

* GCP Or Azure Cloud engineer certification.

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