Remote DevOps Engineer II - Cloud Platform (Kubernetes, AWS)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

401(k) with company match

Employee equity grants

Health coverage

Job summary

Upstart seeks a DevOps Engineer (L4) for its Cloud Platform under the Reliability org. You will design and operate Kubernetes (EKS) clusters across production and staging, while evolving AWS networking and IAM to support scalable, multi-team workloads.

As part of the role, you'll build and maintain IaC and GitOps workflows with Terraform, CDK, and ArgoCD, improve reliability, and drive platform standards across SRE, Delivery, InfoSec, and Product/ML teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 3+ years operating Kubernetes in production environments, including cluster networking, storage, and RBAC.
• Proficiency with AWS infrastructure design (VPCs, networking, IAM).
• Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code with Terraform or AWS CDK.
• Experience implementing GitOps workflows with ArgoCD or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate a fleet of Kubernetes (EKS) clusters across production, staging, and epoxy environments, ensuring reliability and high availability.
• Evolve AWS infrastructure and network architecture (VPCs, subnets, IAM, account structure) to support scalable 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 the on-call rotation, leading incident response and post-incident reviews to drive systemic platform improvements.

Skills

Kubernetes in prod

AWS infrastructure

Terraform

AWS CDK

ArgoCD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

ArgoCD

Job description

Upstart seeks a DevOps Engineer (L4) for its Cloud Platform under the Reliability org. You will design and operate Kubernetes (EKS) clusters across production and staging, while evolving AWS networking and IAM to support scalable, multi-team workloads.

As part of the role, you'll build and maintain IaC and GitOps workflows with Terraform, CDK, and ArgoCD, improve reliability, and drive platform standards across SRE, Delivery, InfoSec, and Product/ML teams.