Job Description

MatchPoint Solutions is a fast-growing, young, energetic global IT-Engineering services company with clients across the US. We provide technology solutions to various clients like Uber, Robinhood, Netflix, Airbnb, Google, Sephora, and more! More recently, we have expanded to working internationally in Canada, China, Ireland, UK, Brazil, and India. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build, and deliver business results, from idea to outcome. We keep our clients on the cutting edge of the latest technologies and provide solutions by using industry-specific best practices and expertise.

We are excited to be continuously expanding our team. If you are interested in this position, please send over your updated resume. We look forward to hearing from you!

Senior Cloud Engineer

Omaha, NE

Remote

6 months contract

Pay $ 65 to 70/hr

Role Overview

• Sr. Engineer. This role is part of Strategic Resourcing services and is a contract role. The candidate will be supporting a customer and will be employed by one of preferred partners. The partner will provide full compensation and benefit information prior to employment with the partner. The Senior Cloud Engineer will work collaboratively with our cloud engineering team to evaluate, design, and implement improvements for service reliability, fault tolerance, and observability. The primary objective is to enhance our production-grade platform, ensuring increased reliability, resilience, and security.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess the current AWS infrastructure, specifically EKS and Istio service mesh architecture, to identify resilience gaps.
• Optimize EKS and Istio configurations to strengthen reliability, bolster security, and improve traffic control.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform for consistent, reliable, and repeatable AWS deployments.
• Design, optimize, and manage CI/CD pipelines in GitLab to support secure, resilient, and automated application delivery.
• Plan, implement, and manage Karpenter-based auto scaling for cost efficiency and enhanced resilience of Amazon EKS workloads.
• Enhance EKS configuration to enable Automode, simplifying cluster operations.
• Implement certificate management and automation processes to streamline rotation and minimize operational risk.
• Configure Artifactory in a multi-node cluster to ensure high availability and resilience.
• Configure and deploy AWS Resilience Hub to continuously validate the resilience posture of the platform.
• Improve observability using AWS CloudWatch and Dynatrace for proactive monitoring and logging to detect and resolve reliability issues. Required Skills & Experience
• 8+ years' experience in cloud infrastructure, with at least 5 years of hands-on experience in AWS/EKS.
• Extensive knowledge of AWS infrastructure services, including Resilience Hub, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB), Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, S3, RDS, VPC endpoints, and other AWS services supporting Amazon EKS.
• Deep expertise in Amazon EKS (architecture, scaling, security, Auto-mode, Karpenter).
• Experience designing and managing GitOps deployments with Argo CD.
• Proven proficiency with Istio Service Mesh (ingress, egress, traffic routing, mTLS, policies).
• Strong understanding of resilience engineering concepts (high availability, disaster recovery, fault tolerance).
• Proficient in Infrastructure-as-Code, particularly Terraform.
• Knowledgeable about monitoring and observability stacks, especially Dynatrace.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD implementation using GitLab. Preferred Qualifications
• Prior experience working in regulated industries (banking, finance, insurance).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent certification.
• Kubernetes Certified Administrator (CKA) or Service Mesh certifications.
• Strong communication skills and demonstrated ability to work in cross-functional teams.

MatchPoint Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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