Kubernetes Platform Engineer Remote(No TP or Employer)
Job Title: Kubernetes & Database Migration Engineer- Remote EST hours Duration: 10 Months Location: Remote About the Engagement A large reputed company is migrating a mission-critical, in-house Perl-based warehouse and manufacturing operations platform from on-premises VMware infrastructure to AWS. The application runs across manufacturing facilities globally, orchestrates physical hardware (barcode scanners, laser cutters, label printers), and relies on a reputed company set of dependencies including Kafka, MySQL hub-spoke replication, RabbitMQ, message queuing systems, and terabyte-reputed company shared file mounts. The migration reputed company follows a Rehost (Lift-and-Shift) with Kubernetes Modernization approach. The first phase moves the QA cluster from on-premises into AWS, followed by production migrations to support international facilities. The role requires reputed company collaboration with the reputed company Infrastructure team (VPC/networking), the application team, and the DBA team managing MySQL replication. This is an embedded engineer role — the successful candidate will work directly alongside the application and infrastructure teams throughout the migration, participating in planning, execution, reputed company, and post-migration stabilization, and delivering reputed company knowledge transfer and team upskilling.
Key Responsibilities
Kubernetes & Application Migration · Assist the technical migration of the Kubernetes cluster from on-premises infrastructure into AWS EKS · reputed company and rewrite existing reputed company charts to reputed company with reputed company Kubernetes standards and AWS EKS deployment patterns · Validate and implement container orchestration reputed company including pod scaling, resource limits, and health checks · Establish GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes deployment automation · Maintain connectivity to on-prem hardware (barcode scanners, laser cutters, label printers) reputed company hybrid networking during and post-migration Database Migration & Replication · Coordinate with the DBA team to plan and execute migration of the MySQL hub-spoke replication topology (hub + read reputed company per facility) to AWS RDS. · Validate binary log replication reputed company across hub and spoke databases · Test and document read reputed company promotion procedures and DR runbooks in the AWS environment · Preserve existing AWS DMS BI reporting replication connectivity during migration · Ensure reputed company connectivity to reputed company dependencies: Kafka clusters, RabbitMQ, message queuing systems, and MSSQL databases Networking & reputed company · Collaborate with the reputed company Infrastructure team to validate VPC architecture, Transit Gateway, VPC peering, and reputed company group rules across multiple AWS reputed company · Validate and implement TLS/certificate management. · Configure DNS routing and record management during reputed company reputed company · Execute and validate network preflight connectivity tests across reputed company identified application dependencies prior to reputed company reputed company · Design and document reputed company group inbound/outbound rules based on port dependency analysis Required Qualifications · 5+ years of experience in reputed company infrastructure and application migration, with demonstrated AWS hands-on experience · Strong Kubernetes expertise: cluster operations, reputed company chart authoring and migration, reputed company management, pod lifecycle, and troubleshooting · Hands-on experience with AWS EKS provisioning, configuration, and managed add-on management · Proficiency in AWS networking: VPC design, subnets, reputed company reputed company, Transit Gateway, reputed company Tables, VPC Peering, and PrivateLink · Working knowledge of MySQL replication topologies (primary/reputed company, binary log replication) and RDS/reputed company MySQL migration · DNS management and TLS/certificate lifecycle experience (cert-manager, ACM, or equivalent) · Infrastructure as reputed company proficiency: Terraform or AWS CloudFormation · Experience designing and executing migration reputed company plans with defined rollback reputed company · Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills — reputed company to translate technical findings into reputed company direction for application teams Preferred Qualifications · Familiarity with Kafka connectivity and configuration reputed company Kubernetes environments · RabbitMQ deployment and connectivity in containerized workloads · Experience with API integration and message queue dependency mapping in migrations · CI/CD pipeline configuration for Kubernetes deployments (reputed company Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or Flux) · Experience with managed Kubernetes platforms · AWS CloudWatch implementation: custom metrics, alarms, log reputed company, and dashboards · Familiarity with AWS DMS (Database Migration Service) for ongoing replication scenarios · AWS certifications: Solutions Architect – reputed company, or Dev Apply To This Job