Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer: AWS & Kubernetes (Remote)

AgileEngine, LLC.; Xico; Hybrid; MXN 1,681,000 - 2,242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive USD pay

Exciting projects

Flextime

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. The role requires 5+ years in DevOps and 4+ years with Kubernetes in production, plus strong experience with AWS, Argo CD, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD.

Excellent problem-solving and leadership skills are a must. The position offers flextime with remote and office options, and a people-first culture recognized with Best Place to Work

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, and cluster operations and upgrades.
• 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.
• 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 Argo CD.
• Improve traceability, repeatability, and deployment reliability.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and related tooling.
• Implement modular, reusable infrastructure patterns.
• 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 Experience

Kubernetes Production

AWS Cloud

Argo CD

Service Mesh

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Bash/Python/Go

English Proficiency

Tools

Kubernetes

EKS

Helm

Argo CD

GitLab

Terraform

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. The role requires 5+ years in DevOps and 4+ years with Kubernetes in production, plus strong experience with AWS, Argo CD, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD.

Excellent problem-solving and leadership skills are a must. The position offers flextime with remote and office options, and a people-first culture recognized with Best Place to Work