Senior AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes & CI/CD

Valiant Technologies LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC seeks an senior DevOps Engineer in New York City to design, deploy and scale cloud infrastructure for key customer engagements. You will optimize CI/CD, implement IaC using Terraform and Ansible, and drive reliability, performance, and security across complex distributed systems.

The role requires hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and monitoring tools, plus strong scripting in Bash/Python.

Qualifications

• 12+ years' DevOps / infrastructure engineering experience in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux administration.
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines; GitLab CI/CD experience is particularly useful.
• Strong scripting skills using Bash and/or Python.
• Good understanding of cloud networking, routing and troubleshooting.
• Experience with web services such as NGINX, Apache and Tomcat.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to diagnose complex production issues.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Build, improve and extend AWS infrastructure supporting production applications and services.
• Implement and manage Kubernetes environments and create and upgrade Helm charts.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, automating build, testing and deployment processes.
• Use Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and Ansible, to create consistent environments.
• Improve monitoring and logging, helping teams identify issues and optimise performance.
• Automate infrastructure and operational processes using Bash and Python.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, database and production issues.
• Work closely with software engineers to improve development and deployment processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, security and cloud cost efficiency.
• Support incident management, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery and continuous improvement.

Skills

DevOps / infrastructure experience

Linux administration

Communication skills

Scripting (Bash + Python)

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab CI/CD

NGINX/Apache/Tomcat

Helm

Job description

Valiant Technologies LLC seeks an senior DevOps Engineer in New York City to design, deploy and scale cloud infrastructure for key customer engagements. You will optimize CI/CD, implement IaC using Terraform and Ansible, and drive reliability, performance, and security across complex distributed systems.

The role requires hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and monitoring tools, plus strong scripting in Bash/Python.