Senior DevOps Lead: Kubernetes on AWS & GitOps

AgileEngine, LLC.; Sur; Remote; COP 350,107,000 - 541,074,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive pay

Exciting projects

Flextime

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. The role demands leadership in implementation, strong troubleshooting, and deep experience with Kubernetes, AWS, and GitOps workflows.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, reliable deployments, build scalable CI/CD pipelines, and drive automation across the platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering experience.
• 4+ years supporting Kubernetes in production environments.
• 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.
• Strong experience with AWS services (VPC, EC2, EKS, IAM, Route 53, ALB/NLB, RDS, CloudWatch, S3, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager).
• Experience with GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, GitOps workflows, IaC, and Terraform.
• Experience with Bash, Python, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployment of a new cloud environment within AWS or another provider.
• Ensure deployment follows security, reliability, and operational best practices.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and operations teams.
• 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 infrastructure with Terraform and related tooling.
• Reduce manual deployment activities through automation.
• Configure platform monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards.
• Support production readiness reviews and runbooks.
• Establish reliability practices and incident response procedures.
• Identify bottlenecks and performance issues across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Document platform architecture and operational support requirements.
• Produce runbooks and knowledge-transfer documentation for support teams.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Root-cause analysis

Leadership experience

Collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

GitLab

GitOps

Argo CD

Service Mesh

Ingress controllers

Terraform

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. The role demands leadership in implementation, strong troubleshooting, and deep experience with Kubernetes, AWS, and GitOps workflows.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, reliable deployments, build scalable CI/CD pipelines, and drive automation across the platform.