Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS Kubernetes Terraform

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group; Lowell (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group in Lowell, MA (onsite) seeks a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, secure cloud infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC tooling. You will drive automation and CI/CD across environments with a focus on reliability and cost efficiency.

You will own Kubernetes platforms, implement GitOps, manage multi-cluster upgrades, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet application and business needs.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of DevOps, SRE, PE or infrastructure engineering experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud platforms, especially AWS (GCP or Azure a plus).
• Advanced Linux systems expertise, including deep knowledge of systemd, cgroups, namespaces, OS tuning, and production hardening.
• Deep Kubernetes and cloud networking knowledge beyond fundamentals (e.g., CNI plugins, Service Mesh, and advanced ingress patterns).
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads (EKS / Docker).
• Expertise in Terraform and infrastructure automation practices.
• Proficiency in scripting with Python and Bash.
• Experience with tools like Git, Jenkins, and artifact repositories.
• Familiarity with networking fundamentals such as DNS, DHCP, VPN, and LDAP.
• Experience with monitoring and logging systems such as DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, VPCs, security groups, and IAM policies.
• Comfortable working with Agile teams and tools like JIRA and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform, with a focus on Terraform module design, remote state management, and policy-as-code.
• Implement GitOps practices using Flux or Argo CD for declarative, version-controlled environment management and drift detection.
• Take ownership of Kubernetes as a Service (KaaS) platforms, including multi-cluster lifecycle management, version upgrades, and advanced autoscaling strategies.
• Troubleshoot complex traffic flows and optimize cloud networking, including CNI configurations, ingress controllers, and load balancing.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient and reliable deployments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Write and maintain infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-code for all environments using Terraform.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize infrastructure performance, availability, and cost.
• Integrate and manage third-party tools, plug-ins, and internal scripts as needed.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including runbooks and architecture diagrams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to improving incident response processes.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure infrastructure meets application and business needs.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering / Software Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Python

Bash

Git

Jenkins

DataDog

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

DNS

DHCP

VPN

LDAP

Helm

HashiCorp Vault

AWS Secrets Manager

Job description

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group in Lowell, MA (onsite) seeks a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, secure cloud infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC tooling. You will drive automation and CI/CD across environments with a focus on reliability and cost efficiency.

You will own Kubernetes platforms, implement GitOps, manage multi-cluster upgrades, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet application and business needs.