Sr DevOps Engineer with Amazon EKS, ISTIO - Denver CO - Onsite Work - Locals only at this time - 5 positions

Sr DevOps Engineer with Amazon EKS, ISTIO - Denver CO - Onsite Work - Locals only at this time Requisition Name : C&DE-CMT-Sr DevOps Engineer Start Date : 4/6/2026 Duration : 29 Weeks Services Location : CO/Denver Max Rate : $ 60 phr on w2 or 65 $ phr on Corp- Corp all inc Description Of Services : We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong experience in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, autoscaling, and cloud-native deployments. The role requires deep expertise in deployment automation, HPA tuning, release reliability, networking, observability, and rollback strategies for large-scale microservices platforms handling high throughput workloads. This role will support mission-critical systems requiring safe deployments, dynamic scaling, performance tuning, and production stability. Key Responsibilities Manage and optimize Amazon EKS clusters Configure and tune: Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) Cluster Autoscaler Resource limits / requests Manage Istio service mesh Traffic routing Circuit breaker Retry / timeout policies VirtualService / DestinationRule Gateway configuration Implement safe deployment strategies: Blue-Green Canary Rolling update Traffic shifting using Istio / Argo Rollouts Automated rollback Automate infrastructure using: Terraform / CDK / CloudFormation Bash / Python / Shell scripting Manage AWS services: EKS DynamoDB S3 IAM Route53 / DNS Lambda CloudWatch SNS / SQS / EventBridge Configure logging, monitoring, and alerting Implement release readiness validation checks Support production deployments and rollback Optimize infrastructure for: Performance Cost Scalability Implement automation for: Cluster health checks Deployment validation Environment readiness Rollback triggers Work with development teams to support: Microservices deployments Containerization Performance tuning Failure recovery Required Skills Kubernetes / EKS / Istio Strong experience with Amazon EKS Strong experience with Istio service mesh Experience configuring: VirtualService DestinationRule Gateway Sidecar Circuit breaker Retry / timeout Experience with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) Experience with Cluster Autoscaler Experience with Helm / Kustomize Experience with ArgoCD / Argo Rollouts / GitOps Deployment & Release Blue-Green deployments Canary deployments Traffic shifting using Istio Rollback strategies GitOps workflows Release automation AWS Services DynamoDB S3 IAM Route53 / DNS CloudWatch Lambda ELB / ALB / NLB Automation / Scripting Bash Python Shell scripting YAML / JSON Terraform / CDK / CloudFormation Networking TCP/IP fundamentals DNS VPC / Subnets Security groups Load balancers TLS / SSL certificates Service mesh networking concepts Observability / Logging Datadog / Splunk / Prometheus / Grafana Metrics dashboards Alerting setup Log aggregation Production Support Deployment troubleshooting Rollback handling Incident response Capacity planning Performance tuning Preferred / Nice to Have Kafka / streaming systems High TPS / real-time systems DynamoDB capacity tuning Cost optimization in AWS Multi-cluster / multi-region EKS Release automation tooling Service mesh performance tuning Deliverables : -Process Flows -Mentor and Knowledge transfer to client project team members -Participate as primary, co and/or contributing author on any and all project deliverables associated with their assigned areas of responsibility -Participate in data conversion and data maintenance -Provide best practice and industry specific solutions -Advise on and provide alternative (out of the box) solutions -Provide thought leadership as well as hands on technical configuration/development as needed. -Participate as a team member of the team -Perform other duties as assigned.