Senior Cloud Consultant Role (NCS/Job/ 2053)

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.