Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS)

CommIT; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CommIT is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join its in-house platform team as an embedded offshore engineer. You will own Kubernetes workloads on AWS, implement GitOps with ArgoCD, and shape CI/CD pipelines while supporting internal development teams as customers.

The role includes maintaining the observability stack (ELK, Grafana) and building automation with Terraform. You will participate in an on-call rotation, troubleshoot production issues, and drive scalable, reliable cloud-native

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on DevOps in cloud environments.
• Production Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) management.
• Expertise in ArgoCD/GitOps and CI/CD flows.
• Strong observability: ELK, Grafana; alerting/runbooks.
• Terraform IaC in production.
• Scripting in Python and Bash.
• On-call rotation experience.

Responsibilities

• Own Kubernetes workloads on AWS and manage CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement GitOps with ArgoCD and maintain observability stack.
• Develop alerts, dashboards and runbooks for reliability.
• Collaborate with internal dev teams treated as customers.
• Participate in on-call rotation and troubleshoot production issues.

Skills

DevOps

Kubernetes (EKS)

ArgoCD / GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Terraform

Python

Bash scripting

AWS

Tools

ELK Stack

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

DescriptionWe are looking for Senior DevOps Engineer to join its in-house platform team (team of 5) as an embedded offshore engineer. You will own Kubernetes workloads on AWS, GitOps delivery with ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines, and the observability stack and treat internal dev teams as your customers. The role includes an on-call rotation.

RequirementsMust-have:

• 5+ years hands-on DevOps experience in cloud-based environments, ideally in startups / scale-ups serving large enterprise customers.
• Kubernetes in production (EKS): workload management, networking, troubleshooting.
• ArgoCD / GitOps and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions): build, maintain, extend and debug independently; able to walk through real CI/CD flows you designed.
• Observability: hands-on ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash/Fluentd, Kibana) and Grafana — writing alerts, dashboards and runbooks. Datadog, Coralogix or Groundcover a plus.
• Terraform (IaC) in production.
• AWS: EKS, RDS, MSK, SQS/SNS, Lambda.
• Scripting in Python and Bash.

Nice-to-have:

• Kafka, MongoDB, Redis or SingleStore.
• Pulumi or Flux.
• Basic FinOps / cloud cost awareness.
• AI-driven approach: uses AI tooling day to day to reduce toil and automate work.