Senior AWS & Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Jobtailor; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer in Utah to build scalable AWS systems and manage Kubernetes workloads in production. You will design multi-region, highly available infrastructure with strong observability and cost controls.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and security teams, and contribute to platform roadmaps while participating in on-call incident response and post-incident reviews.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• Proven track record maturing DevOps practices, not just operating within an established one.
• Experience operating and scaling systems to millions of users or devices.
• Strong experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure at production scale.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm) and CI/CD design (GitOps preferred).
• Observability, metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting practices.

Responsibilities

• Support reliability and uptime across development, staging, and production environments.
• Design and implement scalable AWS systems supporting growth.
• Help manage multi-regional or highly available infrastructure with SLAs, failover patterns, and capacity planning.
• Identify and remediate infrastructure and deployment security risks.
• Build and maintain CI/CD systems and GitOps workflows.
• Improve developer tooling, deployment pipelines, and environment management.
• Manage Kubernetes and containerized workloads using IaC practices.
• Build and enhance monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting practices.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, including root cause analysis.
• Contribute to infrastructure health, performance, and cost reporting and dashboards.
• Contribute to the infrastructure and platform roadmap.
• Build and maintain runbooks and documentation.
• Support cost management by identifying waste and aligning resources with goals.
• Support new product initiatives with scalable platform solutions and DevOps input.
• Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, security, and platform teams.

Skills

AWS Infrastructure

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

GitOps

CI/CD

Observability

Cost Optimization

Incident Response

Documentation

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

GitOps

CI/CD Systems

Job description

Jobtailor is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer in Utah to build scalable AWS systems and manage Kubernetes workloads in production. You will design multi-region, highly available infrastructure with strong observability and cost controls.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and security teams, and contribute to platform roadmaps while participating in on-call incident response and post-incident reviews.