Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Magna seeks a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and support scalable, secure cloud infrastructure across environments, with a strong focus on AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC tooling. You will drive automation, CI/CD practices, and cloud services while collaborating with a high-performance team.

You will own Kubernetes as a Service platforms, manage multi-cluster lifecycles, and optimize networking, security, and cost.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of DevOps/SRE/infrastructure experience.
• 5+ years cloud platforms experience, AWS preferred.
• Advanced Linux systems expertise including systemd, cgroups, namespaces, OS tuning.
• Deep Kubernetes and cloud networking knowledge beyond fundamentals (CNI, Service Mesh, advanced ingress).
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads (EKS/Docker).
• Terraform and infrastructure automation practices.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting.
• Experience with Git, Jenkins, and artifact repositories.
• Networking fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, VPN, LDAP).
• Experience with monitoring/logging systems (DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, VPCs, security groups, and IAM policies.
• Comfortable with Agile teams and tools like JIRA and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Implement GitOps practices using Flux or Argo CD for declarative environment management and drift detection.
• Own Kubernetes as a Service platforms, including multi-cluster lifecycle management, version upgrades, and autoscaling.
• Troubleshoot complex traffic flows and optimize cloud networking (CNI, ingress, load balancing).
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployments.
• Automate provisioning and configuration with Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Write and maintain IaC and configuration as code with Terraform.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance, availability, and cost.
• Integrate and manage third-party tools and scripts as needed.
• Create and maintain runbooks and architecture diagrams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to meet app and business needs.

Skills

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Linux

Python

Bash

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Git

Jenkins

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Flux

Argo CD

Terraform

EKS

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Magna seeks a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and support scalable, secure cloud infrastructure across environments, with a strong focus on AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC tooling. You will drive automation, CI/CD practices, and cloud services while collaborating with a high-performance team.

You will own Kubernetes as a Service platforms, manage multi-cluster lifecycles, and optimize networking, security, and cost.