Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD (NY-Based)

Data Intellect; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Data Intellect is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our New York team, focusing on scalable cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD deployments. You’ll drive automation, reliability, and performance in collaboration with development squads.

You will build AWS infrastructure, manage Helm charts, and implement IaC with Terraform and Ansible while optimizing cloud costs and resilience. NY-based with in-office expectations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years DevOps / infrastructure engineering experience in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux administration.
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines; GitLab CI/CD experience is particularly useful.
• Strong scripting skills using Bash and/or Python.
• Good understanding of cloud networking, routing and troubleshooting.
• Experience with web services such as NGINX, Apache and Tomcat.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to diagnose complex production issues.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Build, improve and extend AWS infrastructure supporting production applications and services.
• Implement and manage Kubernetes environments and create and upgrade Helm charts.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, automating build, testing and deployment processes.
• Use Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and Ansible, to create consistent and repeatable environments.
• Improve monitoring and logging, helping teams identify issues and optimise application and infrastructure performance.
• Automate infrastructure and operational processes using Bash and Python.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, database and production issues.
• Work closely with software engineers to improve development and deployment processes.
• Help design scalable architecture for large customer environments.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, security and cloud cost efficiency.
• Support incident management, root‑cause analysis, disaster recovery and continuous improvement.

Skills

AWS

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Bash/Python

Networking

NGINX/Apache/Tomcat

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Data Intellect is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our New York team, focusing on scalable cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD deployments. You’ll drive automation, reliability, and performance in collaboration with development squads.

You will build AWS infrastructure, manage Helm charts, and implement IaC with Terraform and Ansible while optimizing cloud costs and resilience. NY-based with in-office expectations.