Senior Technical Specialist
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 12, 2026.
Job Summary
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building, operating, and scaling cloud-native platforms, supporting Kubernetes-based workloads, and improving automation, observability, deployment reliability, and system performance.
This role requires a strong technical foundation, practical experience with modern infrastructure tooling, and the ability to communicate effectively with engineering, security, and operations teams.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.
- Manage and operate Kubernetes workloads using Amazon EKS.
- Develop, maintain, and improve infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Support and optimize cloud-native services including AWS MSK, networking, compute, storage, IAM, and monitoring services.
- Build automation using Python, Unix shell scripts, and other scripting or programming languages.
- Improve reliability, availability, performance, and operational efficiency across production systems.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
- Monitor system health, troubleshoot incidents, and participate in root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment practices and production readiness.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
- Support security, compliance, backup, disaster recovery, and cost optimization initiatives.
**Required Skills and Experience**
- Excellent knowledge of Amazon EKS, Kubernetes architecture, deployments, services, ingress, autoscaling, and cluster operations.
- Excellent knowledge of AWS services and cloud infrastructure best practices.
- Hands-on experience with Amazon MSK or Kafka-based streaming platforms.
- Expert-level experience with Terraform, including modules, state management, workspaces, and reusable infrastructure patterns.
- Good working knowledge of Python, Unix shell scripting, and at least one additional programming or scripting language.
- Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking, DNS, load balancing, and security fundamentals.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar.
- Experience supporting production systems in high-availability environments.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and incident response skills.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar.
- Experience with Helm, Kustomize, or other Kubernetes deployment tools.
- Familiarity with AWS IAM, VPC, Route 53, ALB/NLB, Lambda, RDS, S3, and CloudFormation.
- Experience with container security, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning.
- AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications are a plus.
**Soft Skills**
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team.
- Detail-oriented with a strong ownership mindset.
- Comfortable supporting critical production systems.
- Able to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building, operating, and scaling cloud-native platforms, supporting Kubernetes-based workloads, and improving automation, observability, deployment reliability, and system performance.
This role requires a strong technical foundation, practical experience with modern infrastructure tooling, and the ability to communicate effectively with engineering, security, and operations teams.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.
- Manage and operate Kubernetes workloads using Amazon EKS.
- Develop, maintain, and improve infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Support and optimize cloud-native services including AWS MSK, networking, compute, storage, IAM, and monitoring services.
- Build automation using Python, Unix shell scripts, and other scripting or programming languages.
- Improve reliability, availability, performance, and operational efficiency across production systems.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
- Monitor system health, troubleshoot incidents, and participate in root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment practices and production readiness.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
- Support security, compliance, backup, disaster recovery, and cost optimization initiatives.
**Required Skills and Experience**
- Excellent knowledge of Amazon EKS, Kubernetes architecture, deployments, services, ingress, autoscaling, and cluster operations.
- Excellent knowledge of AWS services and cloud infrastructure best practices.
- Hands-on experience with Amazon MSK or Kafka-based streaming platforms.
- Expert-level experience with Terraform, including modules, state management, workspaces, and reusable infrastructure patterns.
- Good working knowledge of Python, Unix shell scripting, and at least one additional programming or scripting language.
- Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking, DNS, load balancing, and security fundamentals.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar.
- Experience supporting production systems in high-availability environments.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and incident response skills.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar.
- Experience with Helm, Kustomize, or other Kubernetes deployment tools.
- Familiarity with AWS IAM, VPC, Route 53, ALB/NLB, Lambda, RDS, S3, and CloudFormation.
- Experience with container security, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning.
- AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications are a plus.
**Soft Skills**
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team.
- Detail-oriented with a strong ownership mindset.
- Comfortable supporting critical production systems.
- Able to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Skill Requirements
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building, operating, and scaling cloud-native platforms, supporting Kubernetes-based workloads, and improving automation, observability, deployment reliability, and system performance.
This role requires a strong technical foundation, practical experience with modern infrastructure tooling, and the ability to communicate effectively with engineering, security, and operations teams.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.
- Manage and operate Kubernetes workloads using Amazon EKS.
- Develop, maintain, and improve infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Support and optimize cloud-native services including AWS MSK, networking, compute, storage, IAM, and monitoring services.
- Build automation using Python, Unix shell scripts, and other scripting or programming languages.
- Improve reliability, availability, performance, and operational efficiency across production systems.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
- Monitor system health, troubleshoot incidents, and participate in root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment practices and production readiness.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
- Support security, compliance, backup, disaster recovery, and cost optimization initiatives.
**Required Skills and Experience**
- Excellent knowledge of Amazon EKS, Kubernetes architecture, deployments, services, ingress, autoscaling, and cluster operations.
- Excellent knowledge of AWS services and cloud infrastructure best practices.
- Hands-on experience with Amazon MSK or Kafka-based streaming platforms.
- Expert-level experience with Terraform, including modules, state management, workspaces, and reusable infrastructure patterns.
- Good working knowledge of Python, Unix shell scripting, and at least one additional programming or scripting language.
- Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking, DNS, load balancing, and security fundamentals.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar.
- Experience supporting production systems in high-availability environments.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and incident response skills.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar.
- Experience with Helm, Kustomize, or other Kubernetes deployment tools.
- Familiarity with AWS IAM, VPC, Route 53, ALB/NLB, Lambda, RDS, S3, and CloudFormation.
- Experience with container security, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning.
- AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications are a plus.
**Soft Skills**
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team.
- Detail-oriented with a strong ownership mindset.
- Comfortable supporting critical production systems.
- Able to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Other Requirements
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building, operating, and scaling cloud-native platforms, supporting Kubernetes-based workloads, and improving automation, observability, deployment reliability, and system performance.
This role requires a strong technical foundation, practical experience with modern infrastructure tooling, and the ability to communicate effectively with engineering, security, and operations teams.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.
- Manage and operate Kubernetes workloads using Amazon EKS.
- Develop, maintain, and improve infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Support and optimize cloud-native services including AWS MSK, networking, compute, storage, IAM, and monitoring services.
- Build automation using Python, Unix shell scripts, and other scripting or programming languages.
- Improve reliability, availability, performance, and operational efficiency across production systems.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
- Monitor system health, troubleshoot incidents, and participate in root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment practices and production readiness.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
- Support security, compliance, backup, disaster recovery, and cost optimization initiatives.
**Required Skills and Experience**
- Excellent knowledge of Amazon EKS, Kubernetes architecture, deployments, services, ingress, autoscaling, and cluster operations.
- Excellent knowledge of AWS services and cloud infrastructure best practices.
- Hands-on experience with Amazon MSK or Kafka-based streaming platforms.
- Expert-level experience with Terraform, including modules, state management, workspaces, and reusable infrastructure patterns.
- Good working knowledge of Python, Unix shell scripting, and at least one additional programming or scripting language.
- Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking, DNS, load balancing, and security fundamentals.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar.
- Experience supporting production systems in high-availability environments.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and incident response skills.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar.
- Experience with Helm, Kustomize, or other Kubernetes deployment tools.
- Familiarity with AWS IAM, VPC, Route 53, ALB/NLB, Lambda, RDS, S3, and CloudFormation.
- Experience with container security, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning.
- AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications are a plus.
**Soft Skills**
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team.
- Detail-oriented with a strong ownership mindset.
- Comfortable supporting critical production systems.
- Able to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.