Quantiphi

Quantiphi

Sr Devops Specialist (Containers / EKS)

USA - Remote · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 14 days ago
PythonNode.jsGitSnowflakeAWSGCPKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsDevOpsPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AIExcelLoad BalancingZero TrustResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • While technology is the heart of our business, a global and diverse culture is the heart of our success.
  • We love our people and we take pride in catering them to a culture built on transparency, diversity, integrity, learning and growth.
  • If working in an environment that encourages you to innovate and excel, not just in professional but personal life, interests you- you would enjoy your career with Quantiphi!

Responsibilities

  • Lead Enterprise EKS Audit: Conduct a comprehensive architectural assessment of the current environment comprising 20+ disparate EKS clusters, analyzing workload distribution, compute utilization, and AWS security postures.
  • Architect the Golden Cluster Standard: Design and establish the standardized, production-ready "Golden Cluster" architecture.
  • Develop the foundational Terraform frameworks to automate the deployment of the EKS control plane, VPC infrastructure, Karpenter/node groups, and core add-ons.
  • Design Advanced Traffic & Storage Patterns: Architect a highly resilient ingress strategy utilizing the AWS Load Balancer Controller for secure external traffic routing, and establish enterprise patterns for persistent storage using EFS and EBS CSI drivers.
  • Lead Architectural Validation: Define the scope and success criteria for pilot migrations.
  • Define Cluster Lifecycle Frameworks: Establish enterprise governance for zero-downtime EKS version upgrades, AMI lifecycles, and create comprehensive architectural runbooks for platform operations teams.
  • Architect Disaster Recovery: Design and integrate enterprise-grade backup, restore, and disaster recovery capabilities for cluster state and persistent volumes using Velero and Amazon S3.
  • Design CI/CD Infrastructure: Partner with engineering leadership to architect and deploy dynamic, scalable CI/CD execution environments (e.g., GitHub Actions Runner Controller) directly on the EKS platform.
  • Platform Engineering & CI/CD: Experience designing scalable, containerized CI/CD runner infrastructure (e.g., GitHub Actions Runner Controller) directly on EKS to support developer platforms.
  • Lead and collaborate with a high-energy team of talented, driven individuals solving complex, meaningful challenges.

Requirements

  • Enterprise Security & IAM: Authoritative knowledge of AWS IAM integration with Kubernetes, specifically architecting IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA), EKS Pod Identity, and AWS KMS encryption strategies.
  • IaC & Automation Governance: Advanced Terraform expertise, focusing on designing modular, scalable, and compliant IaC frameworks for EKS fleet management and foundational add-ons.
  • Enterprise Consolidation Leadership: Proven track record of leading massive cluster consolidation programs, migrating sprawling multi-cluster environments into streamlined, cost-optimized architectures.
  • FinOps & Compute Strategy: Deep experience with advanced AWS compute scaling and cost-optimization strategies, including Karpenter, Spot Instances, and Graviton (ARM) processors.
  • Stay ahead of the curve by gaining hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI, ML, data, and cloud technologies while continuously upskilling.
  • Authoritative knowledge of AWS IAM integration with Kubernetes, specifically architecting IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA), EKS Pod Identity, and AWS KMS encryption strategies.
  • Deep experience with advanced AWS compute scaling and cost-optimization strategies, including Karpenter, Spot Instances, and Graviton (ARM) processors.

Skills

  • 3 AWS AI/ML Partner of the Year awards
  • 3 NVIDIA Partner of the Year awards
  • 3 Snowflake Partner of the Year awards
  • Rated Leaders by Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG, Everest Group and other leading analyst firms
  • Sr Devops Engineer

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