Remote DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes)

Notch8; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Notch8 is seeking a Mid Level DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure engineer to manage day-to-day operations of a multi-tenant AWS/Kubernetes platform, with growth toward senior infrastructure work. You will own platform changes via GitOps, maintain monitoring, and contribute to cost-reduction efforts while collaborating with a distributed team across three US time zones.

You will work under a platform lead with senior review on hard problems, and have opportunities to grow into more ownership within a

Qualifications

• Three to five years of hands-on experience operating production systems.
• Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, and the command line.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and at least one major cloud provider, AWS preferred.
• Comfort implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and managing multiple environments.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (OpenTofu, Terraform, or similar).
• Scripting ability in at least one language (Bash, Python, or Ruby), and fluency with Git.
• Care and good judgment. We run other institutions' production systems, and we work carefully because of it.
• Clear written communication, which matters on a fully distributed team.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen to apply

Responsibilities

• Own routine and moderate-complexity platform changes through our GitOps workflow, with senior review on higher-risk changes.
• Maintain healthy monitoring and alerting; triage, investigate, tune, and document context.
• Drive cost-reduction efforts: right-sizing, remove idle resources, tagging and cleanup, and prioritize savings.
• Operate and evidence SOC 2 controls; run checks and keep tooling current.
• Manage environments: backups, restore tests, maintenance windows, reliability tasks.
• Write and improve runbooks to speed up team delivery.
• Take a full share of on-call rotation with senior support available.

Skills

Linux fundamentals

Kubernetes

AWS cloud

CI/CD pipelines

OpenTofu

Terraform

Scripting (Bash/Python/Ruby)

Git

Networking

Monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana)

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

ArgoCD

OpenTofu

PostgreSQL

Redis

Solr

Prometheus

Grafana

1Password

Cloudflare

nginx-ingress

Job description

Notch8 is seeking a Mid Level DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure engineer to manage day-to-day operations of a multi-tenant AWS/Kubernetes platform, with growth toward senior infrastructure work. You will own platform changes via GitOps, maintain monitoring, and contribute to cost-reduction efforts while collaborating with a distributed team across three US time zones.

You will work under a platform lead with senior review on hard problems, and have opportunities to grow into more ownership within a