Senior AWS Infra Engineer - GitOps & Telemetry

Jobtailor; Arizona; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer to build and scale high-availability AWS infrastructure, with a focus on GitOps, CI/CD, and IaC.

You will configure telemetry tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), drive incident response, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product, security, and core engineering teams to improve platform adoption and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience contributing to complex, large-scale distributed systems in mission-critical environments.
• Hands-on proficiency in AWS ecosystems and Terraform for reproducible environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and GitOps workflows (Flux, Argo, GitHub Actions).
• Proficient coding/scripting in Python, Go, or Bash for automation.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• Knowledge of cloud security, API Gateways, load balancing, and network isolation.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and optimize high-availability AWS infrastructure.
• Contribute to a standardized, globally scalable fleet managed entirely through code.
• Implement automated infrastructure solutions using GitOps, modern CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
• Configure and maintain Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry telemetry tooling.
• Monitor performance and identify bottlenecks.
• Participate in incident-response on-call rotations and lead blameless post-mortems.
• Partner with Product, Security, and Core Engineering teams to support adoption of Golden Paths.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and foster strong technical practices.
• Maintain and support high-performance, low-latency private connectivity for external customer traffic.
• Partner with internal engineering teams to support platform adoption.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

GitOps

Python

Go

Bash

Prometheus

Grafana

Tools

GitHub Actions

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer to build and scale high-availability AWS infrastructure, with a focus on GitOps, CI/CD, and IaC.

You will configure telemetry tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), drive incident response, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product, security, and core engineering teams to improve platform adoption and performance.