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 Git

Ops releases using Argo CD and Terraform.

The deployment follows an AWS cloud-native approach, incorporating multi-architecture node pools and custom tooling.

Responsibilities

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 ARM64Create 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 Git

Ops 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

Requirements

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 Git

Ops-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

Nice to have

Experience with AWS Cloud Development Kit

Knowledge of Argo Rollouts and Helm

Experience in CI/CD practices

We offer

International projects with top brands

Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers

Healthcare benefits

Employee financial programs

Paid time off and sick leave

Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses

Unlimited access to the Linked

In Learning library and 22,000+ courses

Integral career opportunities

Volunteer and community involvement opportunitiesEPAM Employee Groups

Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and Linked

InEPAM is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Lead EKS Platform Engineer (Colombia)
🏢 EPAM Systems
📍 Colombia