Senior DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes & Cloud Platform Lead

AgileEngine, LLC.; Ciudad de Mendoza; Hybrid; ARS 181,747,000 - 272,620,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive USD-based compensation

Exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

AgileEngine, LLC. in Mendoza, Argentina, seeks 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 deployment, ensure security and reliability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong Kubernetes (EKS, Helm), Argo CD, Terraform, and GitOps experience, plus hands-on AWS skills and scripting in Bash/Python/Go.

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Troubleshooting

Root-cause analysis

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

EKS

Helm

Argo CD

Service Mesh

Ingress controllers

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

GitOps

AWS

Bash

Python

Go

Job description

AgileEngine, LLC. in Mendoza, Argentina, seeks 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 deployment, ensure security and reliability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong Kubernetes (EKS, Helm), Argo CD, Terraform, and GitOps experience, plus hands-on AWS skills and scripting in Bash/Python/Go.