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DevOps/Platform Engineer - AWS/Kubernetes
IQ Staffing B.V.
About the role
DevOps Engineer — Kubernetes & AWS EKS
Kubernetes in production, on AWS, at the point where it stops being a tutorial and starts being an on-call rotation. You'll run and harden EKS clusters, build the Terraform and Helm that puts workloads on them, and be the person who works out why a cluster is misbehaving before anyone else notices. Security and reliability are part of the build here, not a review step at the end.
The environment
You'll work in a container-based, cloud-native setup on AWS, alongside other engineers, stakeholders and external vendors. Expect microservices, multiple clusters, and a delivery approach built on Infrastructure as Code and automated pipelines rather than manual change.
What you'll do
Administer, deploy and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS.
Keep production healthy: performance tuning, incident response, root-cause work.
Build and maintain infrastructure through Terraform and Helm charts.
Apply Kubernetes security properly — RBAC, secrets management, DevSecOps practice.
Set up and maintain monitoring, logging and alerting so problems surface early.
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
Work across teams and with vendors to get things landed rather than escalated.
Tech stack
Core: Kubernetes · Amazon EKS · AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, Route 53, ALB/NLB, S3) · Terraform · Helm · Docker · Git
Also in the mix: ArgoCD & GitOps · CloudWatch · Splunk · Prometheus & Grafana · ELK Stack · Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps · Bash & Python
What you'll bring
Must-haves
Strong hands-on Kubernetes: administration, deployment and troubleshooting, not just deploying onto someone else's cluster.
Real Amazon EKS experience.
Solid AWS breadth — EC2, VPC, IAM, Route 53, load balancing and S3.
Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, plus Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments.
Kubernetes security in practice: RBAC, secrets management, DevSecOps habits.
Scripting in Bash or Python, and Git version control done properly.
Nice to have
ArgoCD and GitOps methodologies.
Managing Kubernetes across multiple clusters.
Monitoring and logging with CloudWatch, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana or the ELK stack.
Building CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect certification.
A firm grasp of networking, ingress controllers, load balancing, DNS and microservices architecture.
You communicate clearly with people who aren't in your team, you care about the outcome more than the ticket, and you're good company on a long incident call.