Senior DevOps Engineer: AWS & Kubernetes Platform Lead

Gridware; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental & Vision benefits

Paid parental leave

Off the Grid - 2 weeks paid break

Job summary

Gridware in San Francisco is seeking a seasoned DevOps/Platform Engineer to own AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD, and observability end-to-end. You will work with Cloud Security, backend, firmware, and data teams to scale production systems and build reliable, secure, and scalable deployments.

As an early member of the team, you will design and operate pipelines, implement IaC with Terraform/Terragrunt, manage IAM and security controls, and optimize costs across environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering with production AWS experience.
• Hands-on Kubernetes administration (EKS or equivalent) and GitOps (Argo CD/ Flux).
• Proficiency with Terraform; Terragrunt or similar wrapper.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions.
• Production experience with Kafka (MSK).
• Strong networking, DNS, TLS, and security fundamentals, IdP-driven access control.
• Experience with monitoring/logging stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir).
• Scripting in Python or Bash for automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, MSK, S3, IAM).
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS) across environments with Argo CD GitOps.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and reusable workflows.
• Operate and tune Kafka-based event streams (MSK) for high-throughput data pipelines.
• Define and manage IaC with Terraform/Terragrunt with environment separation.
• Manage IAM across platforms with Auth0/EntraID and service accounts.
• Build observability with Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Mimir for on-call fault-finding.
• Cost optimization across environments in partnership with engineering teams.

Skills

DevOps experience

Kubernetes (EKS)

GitOps

CI/CD

Kafka

Networking & security

Linux scripting

Auth0/EntraID

Monitoring & observability

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Argo CD

GitHub Actions

AWS (EKS, MSK, RDS)

Grafana / Prometheus / Loki / Mimir

Job description

Gridware in San Francisco is seeking a seasoned DevOps/Platform Engineer to own AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD, and observability end-to-end. You will work with Cloud Security, backend, firmware, and data teams to scale production systems and build reliable, secure, and scalable deployments.

As an early member of the team, you will design and operate pipelines, implement IaC with Terraform/Terragrunt, manage IAM and security controls, and optimize costs across environments.