Aws Data Platform Engineer – Devops & Data Pipelines
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Job summary
Darwoft is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, operate, and improve the cloud infrastructure and deployment platform for a high-scale cybersecurity product.
You’ll work primarily with AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, and observability technologies, collaborating with Software Engineering, QA, Security, and IT teams.
This role emphasizes platform engineering, automation, security, and cost efficiency with a high degree of ownership over production systems.
Qualifications
- 5–8+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles.
- Strong hands-on AWS production experience.
- Experience managing Kubernetes clusters, ideally EKS.
- In-depth Terraform and IaC expertise.
- Proficient with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with observability tools and Linux administration.
- Knowledge of security and FinOps best practices.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS.
- Develop IaC with Terraform and manage Kubernetes/EKS workloads.
- Create reliable CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins or GitLab CI.
- Improve deployment processes, reliability, and developer experience.
- Build observability with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch/ELK.
- Ensure security, cost optimization, and platform resilience.
- Collaborate with Security, Engineering, and IT teams.
- Participate in incident response and root-cause analyses.
Skills
Education
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Job description
- Streaming: Kinesis Data Streams / Firehose, MSK Serverless.
- TaskFlow API, XComs, dynamic task mapping, task groups y assets.
- Welcome kit.
- Healthy Break.
- Location: Anywhere in LATAM
- Work Model: 100% Remote
- Engagement: Full-time Contractor
- Payment: USD
- Project: Identity Security / Cybersecurity Platform
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Anywhere in LATAM
- Work Model: 100% Remote
- Engagement: Full-time Contractor
- Payment: USD
- Project: Identity Security / Cybersecurity Platform
- Seniority: Senior
- English Level: B2 / C1
At Darwoft, we build custom software solutions and partner with international companies to create high-impact digital products.
We are a Latin American technology company with a people-first culture, strong professional standards, and a long-term partnership mindset. We work with distributed teams, complex technical challenges, and clients whose technology has a direct impact on their businesses and users.
We are partnering with an innovative cybersecurity company developing a modern Identity Security and Identity Observability platform .
The product enables enterprise security teams to monitor identity activity, identify security gaps, detect suspicious behavior, and reduce identity-related risks across cloud, SaaS, network, and on-premise environments .
Its architecture relies heavily on distributed systems, real-time data processing, cloud-native infrastructure, advanced analytics, and an increasingly AI-driven security roadmap .
As the platform continues to scale, infrastructure reliability, automation, observability, security, and developer productivity are critical engineering priorities.
We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, operate, and continuously improve the cloud infrastructure and deployment platform supporting a high-scale cybersecurity product.
You’ll work primarily with AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, and observability technologies , partnering closely with Software Engineering, QA, Security, and IT teams.
This role goes beyond maintaining infrastructure. You’ll actively contribute to platform engineering , helping engineers ship software faster and more reliably while improving automation, security, operational visibility, scalability, and cloud cost efficiency.
You’ll have a high degree of ownership over production infrastructure and participate directly in architectural decisions, incident resolution, platform improvements, and DevOps best practices.
- Design, build, and operate highly available and scalable cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS .
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform .
- Deploy, manage, scale, and troubleshoot workloads running on Kubernetes , particularly Amazon EKS .
- Develop automation for infrastructure provisioning, environment configuration, and application deployment.
- Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI .
- Improve deployment processes, release reliability, and developer experience across engineering teams.
- Manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes .
- Design and improve observability across infrastructure and applications.
- Implement monitoring, dashboards, alerts, and centralized logging using technologies such as:
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- AWS CloudWatch
- OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
- ELK
- Participate in production incident response, troubleshooting, mitigation, and root cause analysis .
- Identify recurring operational issues and automate their resolution.
- Implement AWS and Kubernetes security best practices.
- Collaborate with Security teams to strengthen infrastructure security and support compliance initiatives.
- Improve platform resilience, high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Optimize AWS resource utilization and contribute to cloud cost optimization and FinOps initiatives .
- Automate operating system and infrastructure configuration using Ansible or similar tools .
- Develop operational tooling and automation using Python and Bash .
- Collaborate with Engineering teams on platform architecture and deployment strategies.
- Continuously evaluate new DevOps, cloud, Kubernetes, observability, and platform engineering technologies.
- 5–8+ years of experience working in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or similar roles.
- Strong hands‑on production experience with AWS .
- Strong experience managing Kubernetes clusters , ideally Amazon EKS .
- Advanced experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Strong experience with Docker and containerized environments .
- Hands‑on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with:
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI
- or similar platforms
- Strong Linux administration skills.
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible .
- Good scripting and automation capabilities with:
- Python
- Bash
- Experience implementing observability using technologies such as:
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- CloudWatch
- OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
- ELK
- Strong understanding of networking concepts including:
- VPCs
- Subnets
- Load Balancers
- DNS
- VPNs
- Firewalls
- Routing
- Security Groups
- Experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems and production environments.
- Solid understanding of cloud security and infrastructure security best practices.
- Experience supporting highly available, production‑grade cloud environments.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with engineering, security, QA, and business stakeholders.
- High degree of autonomy, ownership, and analytical problem‑solving ability.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
You’ll work with technologies including:
- AWS
- Kubernetes / EKS
- Docker
- Terraform
- Ansible
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- Linux
- Python
- Bash
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- CloudWatch
- OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
- Experience with HashiCorp Nomad .
- Experience with HashiCorp Consul .
- Broader experience with the HashiCorp ecosystem.
- Experience operating Kafka in production.
- Experience supporting data infrastructure based on:
- ClickHouse
- Elasticsearch
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Experience with distributed systems and high-volume data platforms.
- Previous experience in cybersecurity, identity security, or security SaaS platforms .
- Experience working with cloud security controls and compliance frameworks.
- Experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization .
- Experience designing internal developer platforms or platform engineering capabilities.
- Exposure to infrastructure supporting AI/ML or LLM-based applications .
Success in this role means:
- Increasing infrastructure reliability and availability.
- Reducing deployment friction and improving engineering velocity.
- Increasing infrastructure automation and reducing manual operational work.
- Improving observability and reducing mean time to detection and resolution.
- Operating Kubernetes workloads reliably at scale.
- Strengthening security throughout cloud infrastructure and deployment processes.
- Improving AWS cost efficiency without compromising reliability.
- Contributing reusable platform capabilities that allow engineering teams to move faster.
- Continuously improving production readiness as the platform scales.
- Contractor agreement with payment in USD
- 100% remote work
- Argentina's public holidays
- English classes
- Referral program
- Access to learning platforms
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