Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer – Platform & Automation Lead

NetBox Labs, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NetBox Labs is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Cloud Delivery team. You will own and evolve the AWS infrastructure powering NetBox Cloud, including EKS clusters, VPC design, IAM, and RDS, while leading end-to-end technical work and mentoring others.

You’ll drive deployment automation, CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, and set meaningful SLOs. This role emphasizes reliability, scalability, security controls, and collaboration with product teams to deliver customer-ready releases.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• 3+ years at a B2B SaaS company.
• Strong AWS experience across EKS/Kubernetes, VPC, IAM, RDS, and cost management.
• Deep IaC experience with Terraform and Helm.
• Strong CI/CD experience, ideally with GitHub Actions.
• Proficiency in Python and Go, with shell scripting.
• Track record of scoping and delivering complex infrastructure projects across a team.
• Strong communication skills: write clear design docs and participate in architecture discussions.
• Experience with security and compliance in production (SOC 2, IAM governance).
• Experience with AI tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude).
• Experience with observability tooling: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the AWS infrastructure underpinning NetBox Cloud: EKS clusters, VPC design, IAM, RDS, and supporting services.
• Lead infrastructure projects from design through delivery, scoping milestones and distributing tasks across the team.
• Work with Product teams to deliver successful customer launches reliably and at scale.
• Drive improvements to deployment automation and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), focusing on reliability, speed, AI enablement and developer self-service.
• Identify and address technical debt before it becomes a reliability or security risk.
• Set and own SLOs for the systems you’re responsible for; reduce toil through automation.
• Contribute to SOC 2 compliance, security controls, and IAM governance.
• Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and design discussions.
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response end to end, including postmortems.

Skills

DevOps/SRE/Platform experience

B2B SaaS experience

AWS (EKS/Kubernetes, VPC, IAM, RDS)

Python

Go

CI/CD pipelines

Communication

Security & compliance

AI tools

Observability

Project scoping

Tools

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

Job description

NetBox Labs is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Cloud Delivery team. You will own and evolve the AWS infrastructure powering NetBox Cloud, including EKS clusters, VPC design, IAM, and RDS, while leading end-to-end technical work and mentoring others.

You’ll drive deployment automation, CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, and set meaningful SLOs. This role emphasizes reliability, scalability, security controls, and collaboration with product teams to deliver customer-ready releases.