Senior DevOps Engineer

SONNET CODE; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SONNET CODE in the United States is seeking a seasoned DevOps Engineer to own cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, driving automation and reliability for production applications. You will design, build, and maintain infrastructure while collaborating with engineering teams to optimize performance and scale.

Responsibilities include creating and improving CI/CD pipelines, managing IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation, and running Docker and Kubernetes in production.

Qualifications

• At least five years of DevOps or cloud infrastructure experience.
• Strong AWS skills across services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, Route53, and Lambda, plus networking.
• Expert-level Azure knowledge, including infrastructure, networking, identity and access, compute, storage, and monitoring.
• Strong Terraform or CloudFormation experience; advanced Linux administration and Bash scripting.
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes, and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or CircleCI.
• Scripting or programming in Python, Go, or JavaScript; professional English and the ability to work independently with distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure across AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Create and improve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and operational processes.
• Run Docker and Kubernetes environments in production.
• Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Improve monitoring, logging, and observability for distributed systems.
• Partner with developers on reliability, security, and performance; investigate incidents and drive follow-up improvements.

Skills

DevOps expertise

AWS expertise

Azure expertise

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Linux Bash scripting

Python/Go/JS

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

CircleCI

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Role overview

Own the cloud infrastructure and operational practices that keep production applications secure, reliable, and able to scale. You’ll work with engineering teams to automate delivery, improve system performance, and resolve production issues across AWS and Azure environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure across AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Create and improve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and operational processes.
• Run Docker and Kubernetes environments in production.
• Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Improve monitoring, logging, and observability for distributed systems.
• Partner with developers on reliability, security, and performance; investigate incidents and drive follow-up improvements.

Requirements

• At least five years of DevOps or cloud infrastructure experience.
• Strong AWS skills across services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, Route53, and Lambda, plus networking.
• Expert‑level Azure knowledge, including infrastructure, networking, identity and access, compute, storage, and monitoring.
• Strong Terraform or CloudFormation experience; advanced Linux administration and Bash scripting.
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes, and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or CircleCI.
• Scripting or programming in Python, Go, or JavaScript; professional English and the ability to work independently with distributed teams.

Nice to have

• AWS or Azure architecture and DevOps certifications.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry.
• Familiarity with cloud security, compliance, or configuration tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.