Senior DevOps Engineer — Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD Lead

Valiant Technologies LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC seeks a hands-on DevOps Technical Lead to own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes deployments on AWS. You will implement GitOps practices with Argo CD, automate deployment and monitoring, and operate production workloads with a focus on reliability and security.

Responsibilities include building scalable pipelines, improving observability with New Relic, and collaborating with development, QA, security, and platform teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on DevOps with AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD experience.
• Strong scripting in Python and Bash.
• Experience with GitOps, IaC, and production incident management.
• Ability to troubleshoot production issues independently.
• Familiarity with observability and dashboards (New Relic).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI.
• Manage Kubernetes deployments using Argo CD and GitOps practices.
• Deploy and operate production workloads on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Automate infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, and operational processes.
• Implement observability with New Relic, including dashboards, alerts, monitoring, and performance analysis.
• Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, and deployment issues.
• Improve system reliability, scalability, availability, security, and deployment efficiency.
• Develop automation scripts using Python and/or Bash.
• Participate in incident management, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Work with Kubernetes components including Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress, Namespaces, and RBAC.
• Apply DevSecOps practices and security controls.
• Use AI-assisted development/coding tools for scripting, troubleshooting, testing, documentation, and code reviews, with appropriate testing, security validation, and human review.

Skills

AWS

Docker

CircleCI

New Relic

Python

Bash

CI/CD

Automation

GitOps

Kubernetes

Troubleshooting

Security

Tools

Argo CD

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Valiant Technologies LLC seeks a hands-on DevOps Technical Lead to own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes deployments on AWS. You will implement GitOps practices with Argo CD, automate deployment and monitoring, and operate production workloads with a focus on reliability and security.

Responsibilities include building scalable pipelines, improving observability with New Relic, and collaborating with development, QA, security, and platform teams.