We are seeking a Senior EKS Platform Engineer to own autoscaling, policy governance and release automation for a Kubernetes estate running on Amazon EKS.
This role covers pod and node autoscaling enablement, admission-time policy enforcement through Gatekeeper and OPA, and Git
Ops release management built on Argo CD and Terraform.
Delivery is AWS cloud-native, with multi-architecture node pools and custom tooling in scope.
Responsibilities
Enable and tune horizontal and vertical pod autoscaling so workloads track demand without over-provisioning
Configure Karpenter provisioners for node lifecycle and right-sizing against workload requirements
Validate autoscaling behavior across multi-architecture node pools spanning AMD64 and ARM64Author Gatekeeper constraints and constraint templates that enforce cluster policy at admission time
Implement mutating admission configuration so policy defaults apply consistently across namespaces
Operate Git
Ops release management through Argo CD, including promotion gates and automated rollback paths
Maintain Terraform modules that provision cluster infrastructure and policy baselines reproducibly
Extend custom tooling supporting the release process to reduce manual intervention
Requirements3+ years of experience with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Kubernetes
Expertise in Karpenter for node lifecycle management and workload right-sizing
Expertise in Argo CD and Terraform for Git
Ops release management and infrastructure automation
Advanced knowledge of Open Policy Agent for admission-time policy enforcement
English proficiency at B2 level or higher
Nice to have
Familiarity with AWS Cloud Development Kit
Understanding of Argo Rollouts and Helm
Background in CI/CDWe offer
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