Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Sapient Search Group; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sapient Search is seeking a Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer to operate and evolve a large scale AWS platform. This is a hands-on role focused on reliability, automation, and scalable infrastructure.

You will own AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes operations across 40+ EKS clusters and 40+ accounts, using Terraform and custom tooling to enable safe, production‑ready changes.

Qualifications

• Strong hands on experience with AWS and Terraform.
• 3–5 years of hands on DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE experience.
• Production experience using AWS and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, and scale a large fleet of Amazon EKS clusters across a multi-account AWS environment.
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform and reusable infrastructure modules.
• Manage Terraform state and infrastructure changes safely across multiple environments and accounts.
• Review infrastructure changes and help establish best practices around AWS and Terraform.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and operational workflows.
• Own monitoring, alerting, observability, and production incident response.
• Troubleshoot AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, DNS, load balancers, VPCs, and application infrastructure.
• Support cluster upgrades, capacity planning, cloud cost optimization, and platform reliability.
• Use Python and Bash to automate operational tasks and build internal tooling.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes (EKS)

CI/CD

Python

Bash

Observability

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Datadog

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Helm

Job description

Please note: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The employer is unable to provide visa sponsorship now or in the future. Candidates who currently require or will later require employer sponsorship for work authorization are not eligible for this position.

Location: Remote, US

Compensation: $150,000 to $200,000 base + 10% bonus

Employment Type: Full time

About the Role

We are working with a fast growing technology company looking for a Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer to help operate and evolve a large scale AWS platform.

This is a highly hands on infrastructure role supporting 40+ Amazon EKS clusters across 40+ AWS accounts, with the infrastructure estate managed primarily through Terraform. The person joining the team will take significant ownership of AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes operations, infrastructure automation, reliability, and production troubleshooting.

AWS and Terraform are central to the position. You will also serve as a senior technical resource for infrastructure changes, reviewing Terraform and AWS work from other engineers and helping ensure changes are safe, consistent, and production ready.

What You’ll Do

• Operate, maintain, and scale a large fleet of Amazon EKS clusters across a multi account AWS environment
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform and reusable infrastructure modules
• Manage Terraform state and infrastructure changes safely across multiple environments and accounts
• Review infrastructure changes and help establish best practices around AWS and Terraform
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and operational workflows
• Own monitoring, alerting, observability, and production incident response
• Troubleshoot AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, DNS, load balancers, VPCs, and application infrastructure
• Support cluster upgrades, capacity planning, cloud cost optimization, and platform reliability
• Use Python and Bash to automate operational tasks and build internal tooling

What We’re Looking For

Strong hands on experience with AWS and Terraform is essential. You should be comfortable working independently in production AWS environments and managing infrastructure at scale.

Ideal experience includes Amazon EKS or Kubernetes administration, multi account AWS environments, reusable Terraform modules, remote state management, VPC networking, IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, load balancers, Route53, CI/CD pipelines, Linux, and production troubleshooting.

Experience with tools such as Ansible, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Helm, Python, and Bash is also valuable.

Experience

We are looking for someone with at least 3 to 5 years of hands on DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE experience, with meaningful production experience using AWS and Terraform.

This is a strong opportunity for an engineer who enjoys owning infrastructure, working with Kubernetes at scale, improving automation, and solving challenging production reliability problems.