Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Unlimit Pro; United States; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company is seeking a DevOps Engineer with expertise in infrastructure and platform engineering. The role involves designing and managing cloud-native infrastructures, operating Kubernetes clusters, and implementing CI/CD pipelines. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in related roles and a strong background in cloud platforms, distributed systems, and Infrastructure as Code. This position offers an opportunity to optimize infrastructure for performance and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in DevOps, Platform, or SRE roles.
• Strong experience operating Kubernetes in production.
• Deep understanding of Linux systems and networking.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience running distributed systems at scale.
• Strong experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage cloud-native infrastructure on AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Build and operate Kubernetes clusters for production workloads.
• Deploy and maintain stateful distributed systems including Redpanda, Kafka, and ClickHouse.
• Design high-availability and disaster recovery strategies.
• Optimize infrastructure for performance, latency, and cost efficiency.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for services and infrastructure.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform/Pulumi.
• Automate environment provisioning and deployments.

Skills

Cloud: AWS

Containerization: Docker

Orchestration: Kubernetes

Streaming: Kafka

Databases: ClickHouse

Databases: Redis

Backend Services: Go

Backend Services: Python

Backend Services: Node.js

Observability: Prometheus

Observability: Grafana

Observability: OpenTelemetry

IaC: Terraform

Storage: S3

Job description

Responsibilities

1. Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

• Design and manage cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Build and operate Kubernetes clusters for production workloads
• Deploy and maintain stateful distributed systems: Redpanda / Kafka ClickHouse clusters Redis clusters Solana validator nodes
• Design high-availability and disaster recovery strategies
• Optimize infrastructure for performance, latency, and cost efficiency

2. CI/CD & Automation

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for services and infrastructure
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform / Pulumi
• Automate environment provisioning and deployments
• Enable safe rollout strategies:
• blue/green deployments
• canary releases
• rollback automation

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in DevOps / Platform / SRE roles
• Strong experience operating Kubernetes in production
• Deep understanding of Linux systems and networking
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience running distributed systems at scale
• Strong experience with:
• Docker
• CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills

Skills

• Cloud: AWS
• Containerization: Docker
• Orchestration: Kubernetes
• Streaming: Kafka
• Databases: ClickHouse, Redis
• Backend Services: Go, Python, Node.js
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
• IaC: Terraform
• Storage: S3