Remote Senior DevOps Engineer: AWS, Kubernetes & GitOps

PAR Technology; Town of Florida (NY); 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. This role emphasizes reliability, scalability, security, observability, and deployment automation across production environments.

You will work with AWS, OpenTofu, EKS, GitOps (Argo CD, Helm), and Datadog to ensure robust operations. There is also mentorship and participation in on-call incident responses.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, SRE, Cloud Engineering, or a similar role.
• 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 deployment workflows.
• Strong scripting or development experience with Python.
• Experience supporting Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ in production.
• Experience with Datadog or similar observability platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking (VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, DNS, TLS, ingress, load balancing).
• On-call rotation and production incident response experience.
• 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.

Tools

AWS Cloud

Kubernetes (Amazon EKS)

OpenTofu

Terraform

Argo CD

Helm

GitOps

Python

Bash/shell scripting

Datadog

VPC networking

IAM

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

RabbitMQ / Amazon MQ

Job description

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

You will work with AWS, OpenTofu, EKS, GitOps (Argo CD, Helm), and Datadog to ensure robust operations. There is also mentorship and participation in on-call incident responses.