High-Availability Bare-Metal AWS EKS Anywhere Deployment & Support

Job ID: 40452193

Budget: £20,000 – £50,000 GBP

seeking a highly experienced infrastructure expert or agency to deploy, configure, and manage a specialized on-premises Kubernetes environment. This project involves building three bare-metal AWS EKS Anywhere clusters to host a mission-critical trading platform. The engagement includes the complete deployment phase, thorough testing, knowledge transfer, and one year of post-go-live maintenance and support.

Hardware and RHEL licenses will be provided by the client. Key Responsibilities:

OS & Network Prep: Image RedHat 9.7 OS on bare-metal servers, configure network bonding across 3 NICs (10G), and set up secured routing tables for specific VLANs.

Cluster Provisioning: Build and configure three EKS Anywhere clusters (Production HO, Production DR, and Test/Dev) across 38 physical nodes.

Dependency Setup: Install layered software on management nodes (PostgreSQL 16.11, OpenJDK) and configure an on-premise EKS-Anywhere image registry.

Deployment Assistance: Work alongside the application vendor (Nasdaq) to deploy their containerized trading platform onto the newly built K8s infrastructure.

Documentation & Training: Provide comprehensive documentation and conduct knowledge transfer sessions for the internal IT team.

Ongoing Support: Provide 1 year of continuous maintenance, troubleshooting, and zero-downtime patching after the system goes live.

Technical Environment:

Infrastructure: Bare-metal physical servers (Intel Xeon Gold, 512GB RAM)

OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.7

Containerization: AWS EKS Anywhere (v0.18+), Kubernetes (v1.34)

Network: Active-Active DC/DR setup (1ms latency)

Database: PostgreSQL 16.11