[Hiring] Lead EKS Platform Engineer @EPAM Systems

Role Description

We're looking for a Lead EKS Platform Engineer to take ownership of autoscaling, policy governance, and release automation for a Kubernetes environment hosted on Amazon EKS. The position encompasses enabling pod and node autoscaling, enforcing admission-time policies via Gatekeeper and OPA, and managing GitOps releases using Argo CD and Terraform. The deployment follows an AWS cloud-native approach, incorporating multi-architecture node pools and custom tooling.

• Enable and fine-tune horizontal and vertical pod autoscaling so that workloads scale with demand while avoiding over-provisioning.
• Set up Karpenter provisioners to manage node lifecycle and optimize sizing based on workload needs.
• Confirm autoscaling performs correctly across multi-architecture node pools covering AMD64 and ARM64.
• Create Gatekeeper constraints and constraint templates to enforce cluster-wide policies at admission time.
• Set up mutating admission configurations to ensure policy defaults are consistently applied across namespaces.
• Manage GitOps release processes using Argo CD, including promotion gates and automated rollback mechanisms.
• Maintain Terraform modules to reproducibly provision cluster infrastructure and policy baselines.
• Enhance custom tooling that supports the release process to minimize manual effort.

Qualifications

• Over 5 years of experience working with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Kubernetes.
• Strong expertise in Karpenter for managing node lifecycle and optimizing workload sizing.
• Strong expertise in Argo CD and Terraform for GitOps-based release management and infrastructure automation.
• Advanced understanding of Open Policy Agent for enforcing policies at admission time.
• English language proficiency at B2 level or above.

Requirements

• Experience with AWS Cloud Development Kit (nice to have).
• Knowledge of Argo Rollouts and Helm (nice to have).
• Experience in CI/CD practices (nice to have).