Remote DevOps Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD

StrongMind, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Unlimited PTO

Holiday week off

Well-being programs

Job summary

StrongMind, Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to own AWS infrastructure (EKS, RDS/Aurora), Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines. You will advance security, observability, and automation across multiple stacks, enabling faster, safer software delivery.

This remote-friendly role demands strong collaboration and autonomous problem-solving. You will contribute to migrating Azure services to AWS, develop IaC with Pulumi, and shape platform standards for a growing engineering function.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience, including EKS, RDS/Aurora, SQS/SNS, Lambda, EventBridge, IAM, VPC networking, S3, and ECR.
• Production Kubernetes experience, including workload scheduling, resource management, and GitOps-based delivery.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience for managing multi-environment infrastructure; experience with Pulumi is preferred.
• Experience with Kubernetes and GitOps tools such as Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, and similar deployment platforms.
• Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions across multiple programming languages and application stacks.
• Experience building and managing Docker images, including multi-stage builds, base image management, and runtime configuration.
• Solid networking fundamentals, including VPC design, security groups, DNS, load balancing, Kubernetes ingress, and CDN configuration.
• Working knowledge of cloud security, including IAM, SCPs, KMS, ACM, secrets management, and cloud security posture management.
• Proven experience improving observability, reliability, uptime, and operational maturity in production environments.
• Experience managing relational databases, particularly RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and backup strategies.
• Comfort owning infrastructure work with autonomy and minimal hand-holding.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, documentation, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS infrastructure, including EKS clusters, networking, DNS, secrets management, and related cloud services.
• Harden production environments by improving cluster reliability, autoscaling, ingress, load balancing, health checks, and security controls.
• Maintain and expand Infrastructure-as-Code using Pulumi, ensuring infrastructure is versioned, repeatable, policy-checked, and increasingly self-service.
• Build and standardize CI/CD and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, Argo CD, and Kargo.
• Improve deployment strategies, including progressive promotion, blue/green deployments, canary releases, and automated rollback.
• Build and maintain Docker images and deployment workflows across Go, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, and C#/.NET applications.
• Develop observability using OpenTelemetry and Datadog, including centralized logging, distributed tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and SLOs/SLIs.
• Strengthen DevSecOps practices through automated dependency, container, secrets, static analysis, and Infrastructure-as-Code scanning.
• Monitor and remediate cloud security findings while maintaining strong identity, encryption, network, and secrets-management practices.
• Support incident response, post-incident learning, and improvements that increase uptime and reduce time to resolution.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve service testability, deployment patterns, observability, and self-service infrastructure.
• Support the migration of remaining Azure services to AWS, including containerization, routing, and database migration.
• Write architecture decision records, runbooks, and documentation that establish clear standards for operating the platform.
• Use automation and AI-enabled tools to improve workflows, solve problems, and increase efficiency while applying sound technical judgment.

Skills

AWS

EKS

Kubernetes

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Kargo

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

DevSecOps

IAM

VPC

S3

ECR

RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL

GitOps

Helm

Kustomize

CI/CD

Networking

Tools

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Kubernetes

Job description

StrongMind, Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to own AWS infrastructure (EKS, RDS/Aurora), Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines. You will advance security, observability, and automation across multiple stacks, enabling faster, safer software delivery.

This remote-friendly role demands strong collaboration and autonomous problem-solving. You will contribute to migrating Azure services to AWS, develop IaC with Pulumi, and shape platform standards for a growing engineering function.