Sr DevOps Engineer with Amazon EKS , ISTIO - Denver CO - Onsite Work - Locals only at this time - 5 positions
Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Contract
1 hour ago
Key skills
PythonCShellBashKafkaAWSTerraformKubernetesEKSHelmArgoCDCloudFormationLambdaS3DynamoDBRoute53IAMCloudWatchSNSSQSPrometheusGrafanaDatadogSplunkGitOpsIstioService MeshLeadership
About this role
Sr DevOps Engineer with Amazon EKS , ISTIO - Denver CO - Onsite Work - Locals only at this time
Requisition Name: C&DE-CMT-Sr DevOps Engineer
Start Date: 4/6/2026
Duration: 29 Weeks
Services Location: CO/Denver
Max Rate: $ 60 phr on w2 or 65 $ phr on Corp- Corp all inc
Description Of Services:
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong experience in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, autoscaling, and cloud-native deployments.
The role requires deep expertise in deployment automation, HPA tuning, release reliability, networking, observability, and rollback strategies for large-scale microservices platforms handling high throughput workloads. This role will support mission-critical systems requiring safe deployments, dynamic scaling, performance tuning, and production stability.
Key Responsibilities
Manage and optimize Amazon EKS clusters
Configure and tune:
Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)
Cluster Autoscaler
Resource limits / requests
Manage Istio service mesh
Traffic routing
Circuit breaker
Retry / timeout policies
VirtualService / DestinationRule
Gateway configuration
Implement safe deployment strategies:
Blue-Green
Canary
Rolling update
Traffic shifting using Istio / Argo Rollouts
Automated rollback
Automate infrastructure using:
Terraform / CDK / CloudFormation
Bash / Python / Shell scripting
Manage AWS services:
EKS
DynamoDB
S3
IAM
Route53 / DNS
Lambda
CloudWatch
SNS / SQS / EventBridge
Configure logging, monitoring, and alerting
Implement release readiness validation checks
Support production deployments and rollback
Optimize infrastructure for:
Performance
Cost
Scalability
Implement automation for:
Cluster health checks
Deployment validation
Environment readiness
Rollback triggers
Work with development teams to support:
Microservices deployments
Containerization
Performance tuning
Failure recovery
Required Skills
Kubernetes / EKS / Istio
Strong experience with Amazon EKS
Strong experience with Istio service mesh
Experience configuring:
VirtualService
DestinationRule
Gateway
Sidecar
Circuit breaker
Retry / timeout
Experience with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)
Experience with Cluster Autoscaler
Experience with Helm / Kustomize
Experience with ArgoCD / Argo Rollouts / GitOps
Deployment & Release
Blue-Green deployments
Canary deployments
Traffic shifting using Istio
Rollback strategies
GitOps workflows
Release automation
AWS Services
DynamoDB
S3
IAM
Route53 / DNS
CloudWatch
Lambda
ELB / ALB / NLB
Automation / Scripting
Bash
Python
Shell scripting
YAML / JSON
Terraform / CDK / CloudFormation
Networking
TCP/IP fundamentals
DNS
VPC / Subnets
Security groups
Load balancers
TLS / SSL certificates
Service mesh networking concepts
Observability / Logging
Datadog / Splunk / Prometheus / Grafana
Metrics dashboards
Alerting setup
Log aggregation
Production Support
Deployment troubleshooting
Rollback handling
Incident response
Capacity planning
Performance tuning
Preferred / Nice to Have
Kafka / streaming systems
High TPS / real-time systems
DynamoDB capacity tuning
Cost optimization in AWS
Multi-cluster / multi-region EKS
Release automation tooling
Service mesh performance tuning
Deliverables:
-Process Flows -Mentor and Knowledge transfer to client project team members -Participate as primary, co and/or contributing author on any and all project deliverables associated with their assigned areas of responsibility -Participate in data conversion and data maintenance -Provide best practice and industry specific solutions -Advise on and provide alternative (out of the box) solutions -Provide thought leadership as well as hands on technical configuration/development as needed. -Participate as a team member of the team -Perform other duties as assigned.