Contract: Senior Kuberbetes Platform Engineer

Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We serve everyone from one-person startups to large, Fortune 100 enterprises with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential.

Last year, more than $3.8 billion of work was done through Upwork by skilled professionals who are gaining more control by finding work they are passionate about and innovating their careers.

This is an engagement through Upwork’s Hybrid Workforce Solutions (HWS) Team. Our Hybrid Workforce Solutions Team is a global group of professionals that support Upwork’s business. Our HWS team members are located all over the world.

Work/Project Scope:

• Hands-on experience with microservices architectures and specifically discovery, service to service communication patterns and high availability deployments on  Kubernetes clusters
• Mid to high level experience with at least one programming/scripting  language such Python or Bash in an enterprise environment.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and ability to work with components such as  VPC, IAM, EC2, ELB, Route53, KMS, Cloudwatch, S3, RDS, DynamoDB.
• Hands-on experience with a Container orchestration platform in AWS  such as ECS and preferably EKS.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure provisioning and continuous deployment with tools such as  Terraform and ArgoCD.
• Working knowledge of DevOps/GitOps and best practices for modern Devops Operations and software development.
• Experience with security best practices related to infrastructure and platform design.

 

Must Haves (Required Skills):

• Relational database management experience (Postgres/MySQL/Oracle)
• Proficiency with database languages: SQL, PL/SQL or pgPL/SQL.
• Technologies: Kafka / Kinesis (on-prem or managed), ElasticSearch/OpenSearch/Mongo, Redis/Memcache
• Databases: Analytical databases like Snowflake/Clickhouse/Greenplum, data federation engines like Presto/Trino/Dremio/Athena.
• Cloud management: Experience with Terraform (CloudFormation, Hashicorp Packer, Chef/Ansible).
• Scripting: Strong experience with Python (preferred), shell (secondary)
• AWS knowledge: Specifics of resource creation and policy (permissions) management.
• On-call assistance with DB-related incidents.
• Automation mindset: Desire and ability to automate repetitive tasks.

 

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