A financial firm is looking for an EKS Engineer to join their team. 

This role is 5 days/week onsite in one of the following locations: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, or San Francisco

Pay: $120-130/hr

Top 5 Required Skills: EKS: 5-6 years of experience  Terraform Gitlab Ansible: Should be able to create playbooks PackerResponsibilities: Develops conceptual, logical and physical IT engineering designs, that support the infrastructure requirements of varying levels of technical and business application projects Completes analysis of business requirements, as it relates to technical infrastructure design, and ensure traceability of the design to the business requirements Assesses testing requirements and prepares testing strategies, as well as preparing implementation and transition plans Responsible for understanding and applying risk management discipline in decision making, and contributing to his or her functions risk management Works under direction with infrequent checks; follows established methods and clear-cut policy Makes decisions when general instructions or established methods indicate action to be taken Performs resolution of complex hardware and problems affecting application systems; Initiates problem avoidance actions Prepares detailed specifications from which programs will be written; Analyzes and revises existing system logic and documentation as necessary Recommends solutions to minimize and/or prevent system interruption Performs change and problem management using standard tools following firm change management policies and procedures for software/hardware propagation to other platforms and/or environments May indirectly lead moderately complex projects, and participate on technical/complex projects; Provides project updates, and prepares management reports as required Follows and ensures adherence to technical standards for programming and design techniques; Trains computer operations and System technical staff on use of software/hardware tools in accordance with required standards and procedures Assists with monitoring compliance with internal audit requirements and Information Security Manual guidelinesQualifications: Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience with 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience Highly Proficient with Amazon Web Services including EKS and other container based services with a min of 5 years of experience working with AWS services and specifically EKS Highly proficient with Agile work environment and use of GitLab and similar source control and deployment technologies Proficient with Terraform and other IaC technologies Well versed with Ansible Automation and in general automation technologies Well Versed with Packer and similar tools for building Virtual Machine Images May require extended work hours - Occasional travel including overnight stays may be necessary; May be subject to on-call and call back as needed May be exposed to moderate noise from equipment