Senior Cloud Platform & Kubernetes Engineer

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group seeks a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer based in the US (Lowell, MA or Detroit, MI preferred) to design, implement, and support scalable cloud infrastructure. The role emphasizes automation, CI/CD, and strong AWS/Kubernetes focus on modern IaC practices.

You will drive infrastructure automation, manage cloud services, and contribute to rapid, reliable deployments across environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of DevOps, SRE, PE or infrastructure engineering experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on cloud experience, AWS preferred.
• Advanced Linux systems expertise (systemd, cgroups, namespaces, OS tuning, production hardening).
• 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 expertise.
• Python and Bash scripting proficiency.
• Familiarity with Git, Jenkins, and artifact repositories.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage cloud infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform with modular design and policy-as-code.
• Implement GitOps practices using Flux or Argo CD for declarative environment management and drift detection.
• Own KaaS platforms with multi-cluster lifecycle management and autoscaling strategies.
• Troubleshoot traffic flows and optimize cloud networking, including DNS/DHCP/VPN concepts.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployments.
• Automate provisioning/configuration with Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Write and maintain IaC/CaC for all environments using Terraform.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance, availability, and cost.
• Integrate third-party tools and internal scripts as needed.
• Create documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response improvements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to meet application and business needs.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Python

Bash

Linux

Git/Jenkins

Automation

Networking

Documentation

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer/Software/Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Jenkins

DataDog

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

HashiCorp Vault

Job description

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group seeks a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer based in the US (Lowell, MA or Detroit, MI preferred) to design, implement, and support scalable cloud infrastructure. The role emphasizes automation, CI/CD, and strong AWS/Kubernetes focus on modern IaC practices.

You will drive infrastructure automation, manage cloud services, and contribute to rapid, reliable deployments across environments.