Senior AWS Cloud Engineer – DevOps & Kubernetes Architect

Remote Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Rackspace Technology is seeking an experienced L3 DevOps/Cloud Engineer to lead complex infrastructure and DevOps activities, driving automation and platform reliability.

The role requires hands-on expertise in AWS, Terraform, AWX/Ansible, ArgoCD, GitOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD and Disaster Recovery, with a track record of delivering scalable, secure platforms. You will own technical standards and mentor engineers while leading DR tests and production deployments.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of hands-on cloud, DevOps, or infrastructure experience.
• Strong expertise in AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps.
• Proven ability to lead complex production incidents and RCA.
• Experience with automation via AWX/Ansible and ArgoCD.
• Design and implement IaC standards and reusable modules.

Responsibilities

• Serve as L3 escalation point for Cloud, DevOps, and deployment issues.
• Lead major technical activities across prod and non-prod environments.
• Own complex infra changes, upgrades, migrations, and platform improvements.
• Drive Disaster Recovery planning, testing, and runbooks.
• Design infrastructure with Terraform and develop reusable modules.
• Review Terraform code and enforce coding standards.
• Develop Ansible roles, playbooks, and AWX automation for config, patching, deployments.
• Implement GitOps with ArgoCD; manage ArgoCD and drift.
• Maintain Kubernetes workloads on Amazon EKS and Helm charts.
• Improve CI/CD processes with Jenkins and other tools.
• MentOR L1/L2 engineers and produce SOPs/runbooks.

Skills

AWS

Amazon EKS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Terragrunt

AWX

Ansible

ArgoCD

GitOps

Helm

Docker

Jenkins

CI/CD

Git

Linux

Windows

Bash / Python

SSL/TLS

Infrastructure Automation

Disaster Recovery

Monitoring & Logging

Production Troubleshooting

Root Cause Analysis

Job description

Rackspace Technology is seeking an experienced L3 DevOps/Cloud Engineer to lead complex infrastructure and DevOps activities, driving automation and platform reliability.

The role requires hands-on expertise in AWS, Terraform, AWX/Ansible, ArgoCD, GitOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD and Disaster Recovery, with a track record of delivering scalable, secure platforms. You will own technical standards and mentor engineers while leading DR tests and production deployments.