EKS/Kubernetes Infra Lead Engineer

The Opportunity

"FICO is seeking a senior AWS Cloud Engineer who thrives working in a fast paced state of the art Cloud environment. This position will be heavily involved with the migration of our existing products, as well as the development of new products within our cloud platform” – Director, Cloud Engineering

What You’ll Contribute

• Act as the EKS subject-matter expert, providing best-practice guidance on cluster design, workload isolation, networking and access controls.
• Collaborate with security stakeholders to validate that all EKS and AWS solutions align with FICO’s security and governance frameworks.
• Support the Infrastructure Engineering team in building and maintaining a robust, secure shared AWS and EKS platform.
• Promote cross-platform compatibility and scalability, ensuring solutions are secure, efficient and compliant with enterprise standards.
• Continuously evaluate and improve EKS operational practices, driving automation, observability and resilience across environments.

What We’re Seeking

• Knowledge on infrastructure as code & kubernetes management concepts such as Crossplane, Helm, yaml, ArgoCD, GIT HUB
• 4+ years of experience.
• Strong with AWS services such as EKS, Bottlerocket, Service Mesh, RDS, S3, VPC
• Design, implement, and manage EKS clusters to support microservices and container-based applications
• Collaborate with application and platform teams to define best practices around Kubernetes resource usage, security, and performance
• Implement and manage cluster networking, ingress, and observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)
• Define and enforce RBAC policies, network policies, and compliance standards for secure Kubernetes operations
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and application issues in EKS environments
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio) and Kubernetes operators
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA). Solution Architect Associate/profressional would be a plus
• Willing to adapt to the "you build it, you run it" model, taking ownership of services from development through to production support.
• Will be required to collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Must participate in an on-call rotation and be available to work outside of normal business hours as needed.
• Weekday working hours - 2 to 11 PM IST (UK shift)

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.