Senior System Software Engineer

AWS EKS Engineer

6-Month W-2 Contract | Primarily Remote | Some Travel to Jacksonville, FL

We're hiring an AWS EKS Engineer for a leading company in the healthcare and insurance industry. This is a 6-month W-2 contract supporting a large-scale cloud modernization initiative. The role is primarily remote with periodic travel to Jacksonville, FL, making it an excellent opportunity for candidates located throughout the Southeastern U.S.

You'll play a key role in migrating enterprise applications from on-prem OpenShift to AWS EKS, helping establish a scalable Kubernetes platform that will support multiple future cloud migration projects.

What You'll Do

• Lead and support migrations from OpenShift to AWS EKS
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot production Amazon EKS clusters
• Manage container images and repositories using Amazon ECR
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Argo CD
• Partner with development teams to migrate and optimize containerized applications
• Monitor, secure, and optimize Kubernetes environments
• Create migration documentation, automation, and operational runbooks
• Support ongoing platform reliability, scalability, and performance

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms
• Hands-on experience managing Amazon EKS in production
• Strong experience with Amazon ECR
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Argo CD
• Proven experience migrating applications from OpenShift or other on-prem container platforms to AWS
• Strong operational experience with monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response
• Solid AWS knowledge including VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and networking
• Experience working with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)

Preferred Qualifications

• OpenShift administration experience
• Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, or Kustomize
• AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, CKA)
• Experience developing migration automation and repeatable deployment processes

Location & Travel

• Primarily remote
• Periodic travel to Jacksonville, FL required
• Candidates throughout the Southeastern U.S. encouraged to apply
• Travel expenses for non-local candidates are the responsibility of the candidate

If you're an experienced Kubernetes engineer with a strong AWS background and have successfully migrated workloads from on-prem environments to EKS, we'd love to hear from you.