Remote DevOps Lead — Kubernetes & Platform Engineering

ZP Group; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

PTO

Paid holidays

Sick leave

Dental

Job summary

Piper Companies seeks a DevOps Engineer, Team Lead to join an innovative technology organization within the software and platform engineering industry. The role focuses on building and enhancing deployment systems on a Kubernetes-based platform to enable engineering teams to deploy and operate applications efficiently.

This contract-to-hire position offers remote work within the United States, with senior responsibilities including leading deployment strategy, maintaining golden paths, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration, deployment, and orchestration.
• Experience implementing and managing ArgoCD for Kubernetes deployments.
• Previous software engineering or development experience with a strong foundation in object-oriented programming (OOP).
• Experience designing and supporting deployment platforms and CI/CD workflows.
• Ability to create standardized deployment frameworks and developer enablement solutions.
• Experience working with internally developed services and platform tooling.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance deployment systems supporting cloud-native applications and platform services.
• Design and implement Kubernetes deployment strategies utilizing ArgoCD and internal deployment tools.
• Create and maintain "golden paths" that streamline application deployment and operational best practices for engineering teams.
• Collaborate with software engineers and platform teams to improve developer experience and deployment reliability.
• Build, maintain, and optimize internally developed services that support platform operations.
• Automate infrastructure, deployments, and operational workflows to improve efficiency and scalability.

Skills

Kubernetes administration

ArgoCD deployments

Object-Oriented Programming

CI/CD workflows

Deployment platforms

Developer enablement

Internal platform tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Job description

Piper Companies seeks a DevOps Engineer, Team Lead to join an innovative technology organization within the software and platform engineering industry. The role focuses on building and enhancing deployment systems on a Kubernetes-based platform to enable engineering teams to deploy and operate applications efficiently.

This contract-to-hire position offers remote work within the United States, with senior responsibilities including leading deployment strategy, maintaining golden paths, and