Remote Senior DevOps Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes & GitOps

PAR Technology; Minnesota; On-site; USD 155,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

PAR Technology Corporation is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and support our AWS cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based platform. You will focus on reliability, observability, security, and deployment automation across production environments.

You will build and operate AWS infrastructure with OpenTofu, manage EKS workloads, and advance GitOps deployments using Argo CD and Helm. Strong scripting in Python and collaboration with engineering and security teams are

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, SRE, Cloud Engineering, or similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using OpenTofu, Terraform, or similar tools.
• Experience with Argo CD, Helm, and GitOps-based deployment workflows.
• Strong scripting or development experience with Python.
• Experience supporting Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ in production environments.
• Experience with Datadog or similar observability platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, DNS, TLS, ingress, and load balancing.
• Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation and supporting production incident response.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using OpenTofu.
• Operate Kubernetes workloads on Amazon EKS.
• Manage GitOps deployments using Argo CD and Helm.
• Develop automation and operational tooling using Python and scripting languages.
• Support AWS services including Amazon EKS, Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis, Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ, load balancers, IAM, VPC networking, DNS, and security groups.
• Implement monitoring, dashboards, alerts, logs, metrics, and tracing using Datadog.
• Troubleshoot production issues and support incident response and root cause analysis.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems, respond to incidents, and assist with after-hours maintenance or escalations as needed.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment reliability.
• Partner with engineering and security teams to improve infrastructure standards, operational readiness, and cloud security.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

OpenTofu

Terraform

Argo CD

GitOps

Python

Bash scripting

Troubleshooting

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

Amazon EKS

Aurora PostgreSQL

ElastiCache Redis

RabbitMQ

Datadog

OpenTofu

Terraform

Job description

PAR Technology Corporation is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and support our AWS cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based platform. You will focus on reliability, observability, security, and deployment automation across production environments.

You will build and operate AWS infrastructure with OpenTofu, manage EKS workloads, and advance GitOps deployments using Argo CD and Helm. Strong scripting in Python and collaboration with engineering and security teams are