Hiring: Platform Engineer Company: Unisys Location: Rockville, MD Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 13:06:21 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Node.js, SQL, Spark, VPC About the job Required Skills: •Design, deploy, and maintain production-grade Amazon EKS clusters architected for petabyte-scale data processing with high availability and fault tolerance. •Operate in air-gapped private VPC environments without internet access, managing secure package repositories and container registries. •Debug and resolve complex distributed systems issues across EKS, Karpenter, and Spark, including scheduling bottlenecks, node scaling delays, and cascading failures under heavy load. •Implement Karpenter consolidation and disruption policies balancing cost optimization with job resiliency. •Manage spot and on-demand instance strategies with robust node interruption handling. •Define and enforce ResourceQuotas, LimitRanges, and PriorityClasses to ensure fair resource distribution and prevent resource starvation. •Configure persistent volume claims and provision container-native storage using Amazon EBS CSI driver for block storage and Amazon EFS CSI driver for shared file access. •Optimize storage configurations for resiliency, high-throughput data processing workloads. Qualifications: •Kubernetes Certifications (CKA, CKAD, or CKS) and AWS Certifications. •Active contributions to open-source Kubernetes, Karpenter or Spark projects. •Operational familiarity with FinOps practices and cost optimization at scale. •Background in data engineering or analytics platforms. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!