Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS/Kubernetes GitOps Lead

AgileEngine, LLC.; Perímetro Urbano Barranquilla; Hybrid; COP 445,590,000 - 604,730,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive USD-based pay

Exciting projects

Flextime (remote and office)

Job summary

AgileEngine, LLC. 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 deployment efforts, ensure security and reliability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams across application, infrastructure, and security domains. The role requires deep Kubernetes/EKS/Helm expertise, Terraform and GitLab CI/CD experience, and strong troubleshooting skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering.
• 4+ years Kubernetes in production.
• Experience deploying 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.

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

Kubernetes

EKS

Helm

Go

Bash

Python

Tools

Kubernetes

EKS

Helm

Argo CD

GitLab

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

AgileEngine, LLC. 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 deployment efforts, ensure security and reliability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams across application, infrastructure, and security domains. The role requires deep Kubernetes/EKS/Helm expertise, Terraform and GitLab CI/CD experience, and strong troubleshooting skills.