Lead DevOps Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD (Remote)

Apply; Buenos Aires; Remote; ARS 184,482,000 - 276,723,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive pay (USD)

Exciting projects

Flextime

Remote work

Job summary

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer to deploy and operationalize a Kubernetes-based cloud environment on AWS for a short-term project. You will lead deployment, ensure security and reliability, and collaborate across application, infrastructure, security, and operations teams.

The role requires extensive Kubernetes, AWS, and GitOps experience, with strong troubleshooting and leadership skills. This is a 100% remote position with competitive USD-based pay.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps, SRE, Platform or Cloud Engineering.
• 4+ years deploying Kubernetes in production.
• Experience deploying AWS-hosted applications.
• Leadership of technical implementations with minimal supervision.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Kubernetes, EKS, and Helm.
• Argo CD and Service Mesh technologies.
• Ingress controllers, networking, storage, and cluster operations.
• AWS services including VPC, EC2, EKS, IAM, Route 53, ALB/NLB, RDS, CloudWatch, S3, Secrets Manager, and Systems Manager Parameter Store.
• GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform.
• Bash, Python, or Go.
• Upper-intermediate English level.

Responsibilities

• 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 Argo CD.
• Improve traceability, repeatability, and deployment reliability.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and related tooling.
• 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.

Skills

DevOps experience

Kubernetes in production

AWS experience

Leadership experience

Troubleshooting

Upper-intermediate English

Tools

Kubernetes

EKS

Helm

Argo CD

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Bash

Python

Go

Job description

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer to deploy and operationalize a Kubernetes-based cloud environment on AWS for a short-term project. You will lead deployment, ensure security and reliability, and collaborate across application, infrastructure, security, and operations teams.

The role requires extensive Kubernetes, AWS, and GitOps experience, with strong troubleshooting and leadership skills. This is a 100% remote position with competitive USD-based pay.