Senior Platform DevOps Engineer: Kubernetes & Terraform

Gorilla Logic, Inc.; Colombia; On-site; COP 90,000,000 - 140,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Gorilla Logic, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer to own day-to-day platform operations and infra in an AWS-first Kubernetes environment.

You will build infrastructure with Terraform, develop Python tooling, and collaborate with engineering teams to ensure scalable, reliable, secure workloads. The ideal candidate will drive deployment lifecycles, troubleshoot incidents, and uphold quality standards while balancing speed and long-term maintainability.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience managing Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes deployments, scaling, troubleshooting, and operational management.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to read and write Python for scripting, automation, troubleshooting, and platform tooling.
• Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, ideally including EKS or similar managed Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with GitOps practices and deployment tools such as Argo CD.
• Experience managing complex application deployment and upgrade lifecycles.
• Proven experience troubleshooting, triaging, and supporting production incidents.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure reliability, scalability, and operational best practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to independently investigate complex production issues.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability, with the ability to operate effectively with limited supervision.
• Quality-first mindset with the judgment to balance delivery speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage, operate, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes environments and workloads.
• Build, maintain, and improve infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Manage application deployments, upgrades, configuration changes, and complex deployment lifecycles.
• Work with GitOps-based deployment processes and tools such as Argo CD.
• Develop and maintain Python scripts and tooling to support platform automation and operational workflows.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across infrastructure, applications, and platform services.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, observability, and operational efficiency.
• Support Kubernetes scaling and autoscaling strategies for production workloads.
• Collaborate closely with development and platform teams to identify and resolve infrastructure and deployment challenges.
• Participate in technical decisions and proactively identify risks, reliability concerns, and opportunities for improvement.
• Maintain high engineering and quality standards, providing technical pushback when necessary to ensure reliable and maintainable solutions.
• Take ownership of platform initiatives and drive issues through resolution with minimal supervision.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

AWS

Argo CD

GitOps

Ownership

Problem solving

Tools

EKS

OpenShift

Helm

Chainguard

Trivy

Kafka

Elasticsearch

ArangoDB

Job description

Gorilla Logic, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer to own day-to-day platform operations and infra in an AWS-first Kubernetes environment.

You will build infrastructure with Terraform, develop Python tooling, and collaborate with engineering teams to ensure scalable, reliable, secure workloads. The ideal candidate will drive deployment lifecycles, troubleshoot incidents, and uphold quality standards while balancing speed and long-term maintainability.