DevOps Engineer

Jam City; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jam City is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design and maintain cloud infrastructure primarily using AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes. This role involves automation, configuration management, and monitoring to ensure smooth operations within a cloud-native environment. Ideal candidates have at least 3 years of relevant experience and a strong command of modern DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in cloud-native infrastructure engineering.
• Proficiency with AWS (networking, compute, storage).
• Experience managing Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Knowledge of Istio or similar service mesh.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Operate Kubernetes clusters with Istio service mesh.
• Implement Ansible playbooks for configuration management.
• Integrate observability stack using Prometheus and Grafana.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Istio

Scripting

Job description

As our DevOps Engineer, you will design, deploy and maintain our cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), manage our Kubernetes cluster with Istio service mesh, and handle day-to-day automation tasks.

Key responsibilities

• Infrastructure as code
• Architect, write and maintain Terraform code and modules for AWS resources (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, etc)
• Container Orchestration
• Operate two production-grade Kubernetes clusters (EKS and GKE) with Istio service mesh
• Automation & Configuration Management
• Implement Ansible playbooks for server provisioning, configuration, and application deployments
• Monitoring, Logging & Troubleshooting
• Integrate and maintain observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Define and tune alerts, dashboards to minimize mean-time-to-resolution
• On-call rotation
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to handle incidents related to Infrastructure

Required Califications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in cloud-native infrastructure engineering
• Strong proficiency with AWS (networking, compute, storage, IAM)
• Solid experience operating Kubernetes clusters and managing workloads
• Understanding of Terraform: HCL, state management, modules
• Practical knowledge of Istio (Or similar service mesh) for traffic control and security
• Good scripting skills
• Familiarity with Ansible