Cloud DevOps Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD Automation

Jobtailor; Lawrenceville (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design and run scalable AWS and Kubernetes environments in a production setting. You will automate infrastructure with Pulumi, Terraform, or CloudFormation, and drive CI/CD improvements while enabling shift-left practices across teams.

You will mentor teammates, resolve complex incidents, and collaborate with development and data teams to boost reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years' experience in DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Operations.
• Experience building or supporting production cloud infrastructure.
• Strong AWS knowledge or experience with another major cloud provider.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Pulumi, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to automate using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or another programming language.
• Experience with Linux and/or Windows environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of CI/CD, automation, and shift-left engineering practices.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with others.
• Strong communication, ownership, and technical judgment.
• Comfort using Claude Code and similar AI agents for development, troubleshooting, automation, documentation, and research.
• Ability to provide AI agents with context, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to build reusable skills, hooks, instructions, and workflows.
• Ability to connect AI agents to tools, repositories, APIs, and documentation.
• Ability to use automated validation and guardrails around agent-driven work.
• Ability to critically review AI-generated code, infrastructure, and recommendations.
• Understanding of security implications of agent access and permissions.
• Ability to recognize when AI is appropriate and when it is not.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate highly available AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code and automation.
• Improve CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
• Automate operational tasks with Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar tools.
• Troubleshoot production issues across applications, containers, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
• Improve observability, reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with development and data teams to promote DevOps and shift-left practices.
• Participate in incident response and help eliminate root causes.
• Document solutions, share knowledge, and mentor teammates.
• Support customer-impacting issues when needed.

Skills

Strong communication

Problem solving

Ownership

Collaboration

Mentoring

Independent work

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Pulumi

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

GitOps

Claude Code

AI Agents

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Linux

Windows

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design and run scalable AWS and Kubernetes environments in a production setting. You will automate infrastructure with Pulumi, Terraform, or CloudFormation, and drive CI/CD improvements while enabling shift-left practices across teams.

You will mentor teammates, resolve complex incidents, and collaborate with development and data teams to boost reliability, security, and cost efficiency.