Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer ID96251
AgileEngine
- Location
- Onsite (Playas de Rosarito, Baja California)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
Posted 3 days ago
About the role
AgileEngine is an Inc. 5000 software consultancy seeking a Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer to deploy and operationalize a new Kubernetes-based cloud environment on AWS for a short-term project. The role involves leading technical implementation, ensuring reliability, and partnering with cross-functional teams.
Skills
Kubernetes
AWS
DevOps
EKS
Helm
Argo CD
Service Mesh
Terraform
GitLab CI/CD
Python
Bash
Go
Infrastructure as Code
GitOps
Cloud Engineering
SRE
Perks
- Flexible schedule
- Remote work options
- Education budget
- Fitness budget
- Team activity budgets
- Mentorship
- TechTalks
Full job details
AgileEngine is an Inc. 5000 company that creates award-winning software for Fortune 500 brands and trailblazing startups across 17+ industries. We rank among the leaders in areas like application development and AI/ML, and our people-first culture has earned us multiple Best Place to Work awards.
WHY JOIN US
If you're looking for a place to grow, make an impact, and work with people who care, we'd love to meet you!
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer to deploy and operationalize a new Kubernetes-based cloud environment on AWS for a short-term project.
MUST HAVES
- 5+ years of DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering experience.
- 4+ years supporting Kubernetes in production environments.
- Demonstrated experience deploying and operating AWS-hosted applications.
- Experience leading technical implementation efforts with minimal supervision.
- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes, EKS, and Helm.
- Strong experience with Argo CD and Service Mesh technologies.
- Strong experience with ingress controllers, container networking, storage and persistence, and cluster operations and upgrades.
- Strong experience with AWS services, including VPC, EC2, EKS, IAM, Route 53, ALB/NLB, RDS, CloudWatch, S3, Secrets Manager, and Systems Manager Parameter Store.
- Experience with GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, GitOps workflows, Infrastructure as Code, and Terraform.
- Experience with Bash, Python, or Go.
- Upper-intermediate English level.
NICE TO HAVES
- Experience with one or more of the following CNCF ecosystem technologies: Cilium, Hubble, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, Karpenter, Crossplane, Kyverno, Tetragon, ExternalDNS, and cert-manager.
- Experience with Backstage, Internal Developer Platforms, Self-Service Infrastructure, Golden Path Engineering, and Environment Automation.
- Experience with Robin Cloud Native Platform (Rakuten Symphony Robin).
- Experience migrating applications from on-premises environments to cloud-hosted Kubernetes.
- Experience supporting healthcare, medical device, HIPAA, or regulated environments.
- Experience integrating acquired company technology stacks into enterprise cloud platforms.
- Experience documenting operational procedures and performing technical knowledge transfer.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Lead deployment of a new cloud environment within AWS or other Cloud provider.
- Ensure deployment follows security, reliability, and operational best practices.
- Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and operations teams throughout the implementation.
- Deploy and manage workloads running on Kubernetes platforms.
- Troubleshoot cluster, networking, ingress, storage, and workload issues.
- Support application modernization and containerization efforts where needed.
- Implement platform standards and operational guardrails.
- Design and enhance GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement deployment automation and release workflows.
- Establish GitOps deployment patterns using tools such as Argo CD.
- Improve traceability, repeatability, and deployment reliability.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and related tooling.
- Implement modular, reusable infrastructure patterns.
- Reduce manual deployment activities through automation.
- Configure platform monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards.
- Support production readiness reviews and operational runbooks.
- Establish reliability practices and incident response procedures.
- Identify bottlenecks and performance issues across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
- Evaluate existing deployment practices and operational processes.
- Document platform architecture, deployment procedures, and operational support requirements.
- Produce runbooks and knowledge-transfer documentation for support teams.
PERKS AND BENEFITS
- Professional growth: Mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps.
- Competitive compensation: USD-based pay with education, fitness, and team activity budgets.
- Exciting projects: Modern solutions with Fortune 500 and top product companies.
- Flextime: Flexible schedule with remote and office options.