Containers / EKS Specialist

VeeRteq Solutions LLC

Full Timemid

Washington, District of Columbia, USPosted April 20, 2026

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Job Description

Title: Containers / EKS Specialist Location: Remote (US) Duration: 18 Weeks EKS platform design and golden cluster implementation. The work requires deep Kubernetes expertise but operates within well-defined AWS service boundaries. Strong EKS, CNI, and Terraform experience. Customer-facing and high-visibility, strong communication skills. Key Responsibilities

Assess current EKS landscape (20+ clusters) and design consolidation strategy
Evaluate and resolve CNI and service mesh decisions
Design and implement the Golden Cluster template using Terraform
Implement CNI, network policies, and service mesh
Design ingress controller strategy and persistent storage
Define pilot scope and deploy/validate pilot workload end-to-end
Design EKS upgrade procedures and cluster lifecycle runbook
Deploy GitHub Actions Runner Controller on EKS if adopted

Required Skills

Amazon EKS - deep operational experience
Kubernetes - RBAC, namespaces, PodSecurityStandards
CNI - VPC CNI, Cilium, Calico
Service mesh - Istio (Ambient/sidecar), Cilium mesh
Ingress - ALB Ingress Controller, Nginx, Istio Gateway
Helm, Terraform - EKS module development
Persistent storage - EFS CSI, EBS CSI, Velero
Python microservices experience preferred

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