Remote Cloud Platform DevOps Engineer: Kubernetes & AWS

Upstart; United States; Remote; USD 142,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Equity grants

401(k) match

Health coverage (medical/dental/vision

Wellness resources

Remote-friendly

Office presence in US offices

Job summary

Upstart is hiring a DevOps Engineer (L4) to scale its Cloud Platform, partnering with SRE, Delivery, InfoSec, and Product/ML teams. You will own Kubernetes clusters, evolve AWS infrastructure, and implement GitOps with Terraform, CDK, and ArgoCD.

The role emphasizes reliability, cost efficiency, and improved developer experience across a platform used by nearly every engineering team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience operating Kubernetes in production environments.
• Proficiency with AWS infrastructure including VPC design and IAM.
• Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code with Terraform or AWS CDK.
• Experience implementing GitOps workflows using ArgoCD or similar.
• Ability to influence technical decisions across teams and drive platform standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate a fleet of Kubernetes (EKS) clusters across production, staging, and ephemeral environments, ensuring reliability and high availability
• Evolve AWS infrastructure and network architecture to support scalable, multi-team workloads
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows using Terraform, CDK, and ArgoCD
• Improve platform reliability and performance by defining and driving SLOs, analyzing incidents, and implementing systemic fixes
• Participate in and help improve on-call rotation, leading incident response and post-incident reviews
• Partner with SRE, Delivery, InfoSec, and product/ML teams to land high-impact infrastructure changes and platform standards
• Drive improvements in developer experience by simplifying platform usage and reducing toil
• Contribute to cost efficiency initiatives by optimizing resource utilization across Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

GitOps

SRE collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

ArgoCD

Job description

Upstart is hiring a DevOps Engineer (L4) to scale its Cloud Platform, partnering with SRE, Delivery, InfoSec, and Product/ML teams. You will own Kubernetes clusters, evolve AWS infrastructure, and implement GitOps with Terraform, CDK, and ArgoCD.

The role emphasizes reliability, cost efficiency, and improved developer experience across a platform used by nearly every engineering team.