Infrastructure Engineer: GitOps, Kubernetes & CI/CD

SGS Consulting; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SGS Consulting seeks a skilled DevOps/Platform Engineer in the United States to implement GitOps, manage Kubernetes clusters, and optimize CI/CD pipelines. You will drive automated deployments, infrastructure as code, and observability across distributed systems, mentoring teammates along the way.

You will collaborate with security teams to enforce best practices, design resilient architectures, and document procedures for knowledge sharing and ongoing operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with IaC tools such as Terraform or Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain GitOps practices using GitLab (or compatible tools) to drive declarative infrastructure management and automated roll outs.
• Build, manage, and optimize container runtime environments (Docker, OCI compatible runtimes) and associated networking, storage, and service mesh components.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab for building, testing, and promoting container images and Helm/ Kustomize based manifests.
• Automate provisioning and configuration of underlying infrastructure (VMs, storage, load balancers) using IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
• Monitor cluster health, performance, and security; implement observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) and incident response processes.
• Collaborate with security teams to enforce pod security standards, vulnerability scanning, and compliance (e.g., CIS Benchmarks, NIST).
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to teammates on best practices for Kubernetes, GitOps, and container lifecycle management.
• Document architecture, runbooks, and standard operating procedures; contribute to knowledge base articles.

Skills

GitOps

Containerization

CI/CD

Scripting

Infrastructure

Kubernetes

Helm

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

SGS Consulting seeks a skilled DevOps/Platform Engineer in the United States to implement GitOps, manage Kubernetes clusters, and optimize CI/CD pipelines. You will drive automated deployments, infrastructure as code, and observability across distributed systems, mentoring teammates along the way.

You will collaborate with security teams to enforce best practices, design resilient architectures, and document procedures for knowledge sharing and ongoing operations.