AWS Cloud Engineer — CI/CD, Terraform & Kubernetes Lead

Strategic Advantage; Ames (IA); On-site; USD 81,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Advantage in Ames, IA is seeking an AWS Engineer who values thorough docs and reliable deployments. This full-time role focuses on owning Kubernetes-driven delivery, ArgoCD pipelines, and Terraform-based infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on practical problem-solving.

You will collaborate with a small, builder-led team and contribute to CI/CD enhancements, incident readiness, and clear communication with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 4 years of Kubernetes experience
• Ability to document decisions and APIs clearly
• Experience with Terraform and IaC tooling
• On-call or incident experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Containerize applications and manage deployments with Ansible
• Document decisions, architecture, and APIs for the org
• Hand off ArgoCD runbooks for on-call readiness
• Carry the Terraform platform work for IA expansion
• Keep CI/CD workflows fast and reliable across IA teams
• Integrate events into ArgoCD pipeline and reports

Skills

Kubernetes

Calm under pressure

Clear communication

Independent worker

Team collaboration

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

ArgoCD

CI/CD infrastructure

Job description

Strategic Advantage in Ames, IA is seeking an AWS Engineer who values thorough docs and reliable deployments. This full-time role focuses on owning Kubernetes-driven delivery, ArgoCD pipelines, and Terraform-based infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on practical problem-solving.

You will collaborate with a small, builder-led team and contribute to CI/CD enhancements, incident readiness, and clear communication with stakeholders.