We're looking for a Lead EKS Platform Engineer to take ownership of autoscaling, policy governance, and release automation for a Kubernetes environment hosted on Amazon EKS. The position encompasses enabling pod and node autoscaling, enforcing admission-time policies via Gatekeeper and OPA, and managing Git Ops releases using Argo CD and Terraform. The deployment follows an AWS cloud-native approach, incorporating multi-architecture node pools and custom tooling. Responsibilities Enable and fine-tune horizontal and vertical pod autoscaling so that workloads scale with demand while avoiding over-provisioning Set up Karpenter provisioners to manage node lifecycle and optimize sizing based on workload needs Confirm autoscaling performs correctly across multi-architecture node pools covering AMD64 and ARM64 Create Gatekeeper constraints and constraint templates to enforce cluster-wide policies at admission time Set up mutating admission configurations to ensure policy defaults are consistently applied across namespaces Manage Git Ops release processes using Argo CD,



including promotion gates and automated rollback mechanisms Maintain Terraform modules to reproducibly provision cluster infrastructure and policy baselines Enhance custom tooling that supports the release process to minimize manual effort Requirements Over 5 years of experience working with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Kubernetes Strong expertise in Karpenter for managing node lifecycle and optimizing workload sizing Strong expertise in Argo CD and Terraform for Git Ops-based release management and infrastructure automation Advanced understanding of Open Policy Agent for enforcing policies at admission time English language proficiency at B2 level or above Nice to have Experience with AWS Cloud Development Kit Knowledge of Argo Rollouts and Helm Experience in CI/CD practices We offer International projects with top brands Work with integral teams of highly skilled, diverse peers Healthcare bene

📌 Lead eks platform engineer (México)
🏢 Epam Systems
📍 México