Senior DevOps Engineer — AWS/Kubernetes (Remote/Flex)

Bluelight; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 138,361,000 - 230,602,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth programs

USD-based pay with education, fitness,

team activity budgets

Flexible schedule with remote and on‑c

Job summary

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

You will manage Kubernetes workloads, implement GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and drive GitOps patterns with Argo CD, Terraform, and automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years DevOps, SRE, Platform/Cloud Eng experience.
• 4+ years supporting Kubernetes in production.
• Demonstrated experience deploying and operating AWS-hosted applications.
• Experience leading technical implementation efforts with minimal supervision.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Kubernetes, EKS, and Helm.
• Argo CD and Service Mesh technologies.
• Ingress controllers, container networking, storage and persistence, and cluster operations and upgrades.
• 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 workflows, Infrastructure as Code, and 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 tools such as 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/SRE

Kubernetes in prod

AWS

Leadership

Troubleshooting

Kubernetes

EKS

Helm

Argo CD

Service Mesh

Ingress

Networking

AWS IAM

GitLab CI/CD

GitOps

Terraform

Bash

Python

Go

English

Tools

GitLab

Terraform

Argo CD

Kubernetes

EKS

Helm

Job description

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

You will manage Kubernetes workloads, implement GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and drive GitOps patterns with Argo CD, Terraform, and automation.