Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer — Hybrid (AWS & Kubernetes)

Fooda; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental plan

Vision plan

401k with company match

Laptop provided

Lunch program

Job summary

Fooda in Chicago is seeking a DevOps Engineer to manage and optimize our cloud infrastructure across AWS, focusing on reliability, security, and scalable operations. This hybrid role is based in our Chicago office.

You will work with engineering and product teams to maintain Terraform IaC, Kubernetes (EKS), and monitoring with Datadog, ensuring performance, security, and disaster recovery while controlling costs.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with AWS services (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudFront).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Experience with monitoring tools (Datadog).
• Understanding networking, authentication, and security best practices.
• Experience with Postgres, MySQL, and SQL Server databases.
• Familiarity with scripting (Python, Shell).
• Knowledge of RabbitMQ and Redis.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and optimize AWS-based infrastructure (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, ElastiCache, CloudFront).
• Manage architecture, billing optimization, reserved instances, and savings plans.
• Support Kubernetes (EKS) clusters including upgrades, scaling, and maintenance operations.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Perform upgrades and patching for core systems (ElasticSearch, Postgres, RabbitMQ).
• Monitor and resolve performance issues including traffic spikes and bottlenecks.
• Maintain backup and disaster recovery processes.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams on infrastructure initiatives.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Datadog

Networking security

PostgreSQL

Python

Tools

CloudFront

ElasticSearch

Redis

RabbitMQ

Job description

Fooda in Chicago is seeking a DevOps Engineer to manage and optimize our cloud infrastructure across AWS, focusing on reliability, security, and scalable operations. This hybrid role is based in our Chicago office.

You will work with engineering and product teams to maintain Terraform IaC, Kubernetes (EKS), and monitoring with Datadog, ensuring performance, security, and disaster recovery while controlling costs.