Senior Systems Engineer

Job description

Responsibilities We are seeking an Senior Systems Engineer to lead production readiness for a regulated AWS/EKS platform that stores, processes, or transmits sensitive PII/PHI data. This role is critical to building and operating secure, resilient, and audit-ready cloud infrastructure across EKS and supporting platform services. This Senior Systems Engineer will partner closely with Platform Engineering, Security, Compliance, and Data teams to implement controls spanning Kubernetes hardening, network segmentation, identity and access management, encryption, observability, incident response readiness, and disaster recovery. Key Responsibilities: - Strong networking and security expertise is required. - Design, implement, and operate production AWS/EKS infrastructure for regulated workloads. - Lead network security architecture, including VPC segmentation, private connectivity, egress controls, DNS restrictions, security groups, NACLs, and Kubernetes NetworkPolicies. - Implement and enforce zero-trust principles for east-west and north-south traffic. - Secure EKS clusters and workloads through least privilege IAM/IRSA, hardened node baselines, pod security controls, admission policie...