Cloud DevOps Engineer - Automation, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Career Team; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Team is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate the cloud platform powering Career EDGE. You’ll collaborate with software engineers, security professionals, and product teams to create reliable deployment pipelines, scalable infrastructure, and highly available production environments on AWS.

You’ll implement Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, container orchestration with Kubernetes, and strong observability and security practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure, preferably on AWS.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar.
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar IaC.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Automation scripting with Bash, Python, JS or TS.
• Networking, security, IAM, DNS, TLS, secrets management.
• Monitoring, logging, observability solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; team player.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code.
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for safe deployments.
• Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot containerized applications running on Kubernetes.
• Automate operational workflows and infrastructure automation.
• Improve platform observability through logging, monitoring, metrics, alerting, and dashboards.
• Optimize systems for performance, scalability, availability, security, and cost.
• Partner with engineering to improve developer experience and deployment reliability.
• Participate in production incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvements.
• Implement security best practices across cloud infrastructure, identity management, networking, secrets management, and application delivery.
• Support compliance initiatives for government-hosted environments, including AWS GovCloud deployments and security frameworks applicable to public sector software.
• Help evolve our platform architecture while continuously improving automation, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Participate as a collaborative member of an Agile Scrum team.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure design

Docker & Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform / IaC

Linux administration

Scripting (Bash/Python/JavaScript/Type

Networking & security fundamentals

Observability and monitoring

Collaborative / Agile teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Node.js / TypeScript

MongoDB Atlas

OpenSearch / Grafana / CloudWatch

Job description

Career Team is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate the cloud platform powering Career EDGE. You’ll collaborate with software engineers, security professionals, and product teams to create reliable deployment pipelines, scalable infrastructure, and highly available production environments on AWS.

You’ll implement Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, container orchestration with Kubernetes, and strong observability and security practices.