Lead EKS Platform Engineer

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 GitOps 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 GitOps 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 GitOps-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 global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
• Healthcare benefits
• Employee financial programs
• Paid time off and sick leave
• Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
• Global career opportunities
• Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
• EPAM Employee Groups
• Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn

EPAM is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.