Senior DevOps Architect: Cloud, K8s & Automation

El Toro IP Targeting; Louisville (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Company-paid life insurance

Short- and long-term disability

401k with 3% company contribution

15 days PTO (20 after 3 years)

10 paid holidays

On-site gym & showers

Dog-friendly/open culture

Job summary

El Toro IP Targeting, based in Louisville, KY, seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to shape our cloud infrastructure and drive reliability and security across the deployment ecosystem. This high-impact role focuses on designing resilient systems, automating workflows, and aligning infrastructure with evolving business goals.

You will partner with developers to design cloud-native architectures, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and lead Kubernetes tooling initiatives.

Qualifications

• Cloud Tenure: Comprehensive cloud infrastructure experience (or advanced degree and/or certification) focusing on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Kubernetes Experience: Experience troubleshooting applications on Kubernetes both developer built and applications deployed from open source including operators.
• Custom K8s Development: Built custom applications (e.g., metric exporters) to fill gaps in existing tooling and monitoring infrastructure.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proven track record of automating infrastructure provisioning and managing complex CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Github Actions, Terraform, Argo).
• Data Proficiency: Hands‑on experience configuring and maintaining multiple database types (e.g. Postgresql, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Thanos).
• Vendor Management: Experience collaborating with and managing external technical partners or third‑party service providers.
• Coding: Experience in writing software in one or more of the following languages: Python, Shell, Go, or similar.
• Security-First Mindset: Familiarity with advanced security protocols, including automated secret management, encryption at rest/transit, and IAM governance.
• Observability Pro: Experience engineering custom monitoring, tracing, and alerting systems that go beyond standard "out‑of‑the‑box" metrics.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Architecture: Partner with developers to design cloud-native architectures, migration strategies, and application optimizations that directly enable business objectives and long-term architectural direction.
• Automation & Pipeline Engineering: Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to ensure seamless, automated software delivery.
• Container Ecosystem: Maintain Docker/Container clusters and take a lead role in creating or improving custom Kubernetes tooling and controllers.
• System Reliability & Monitoring: Proactively improve monitoring and alerting systems to ensure high availability.
• Security & Compliance: Act as a guardian of the ecosystem by maintaining relevance in best practices regarding compliance, privacy, and legal security requirements.
• Technical Troubleshooting: Serve as the final point of escalation for complex technical challenges and participate in on-call support rotation.

Skills

Cloud Tenure

Kubernetes Experience

Custom K8s Development

Infrastructure as Code

Data Proficiency

Vendor Management

Coding

Security-First Mindset

Observability Pro

Advanced Architecture

Microservices Expert

Tools

Github Actions

Terraform

Argo

Docker

Job description

El Toro IP Targeting, based in Louisville, KY, seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to shape our cloud infrastructure and drive reliability and security across the deployment ecosystem. This high-impact role focuses on designing resilient systems, automating workflows, and aligning infrastructure with evolving business goals.

You will partner with developers to design cloud-native architectures, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and lead Kubernetes tooling initiatives.