Senior DevOps Engineer — Hybrid Kubernetes & AWS

Slate; Washington; On-site; USD 136,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

401k

Paid vacation

Job summary

Slate seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to build and run a hybrid Kubernetes platform across AWS and in-house infrastructure. You’ll collaborate with Digital, Data Engineering, and enterprise teams to deliver environments, access, and pipelines, while owning CI/CD workflows and GitOps deployments.

You will participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and craft runbooks and design notes to empower teams and reduce toil. A strong background in AWS, Kubernetes, Python, and IaC is essential.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps, site reliability, platform or infrastructure engineering, with hands-on responsibility for production systems.
• Strong AWS Experience: Hands-on experience building and operating production workloads on AWS, including IAM, VPC networking, EC2, EKS or ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, Route 53 and CloudWatch.
• Kubernetes Operations: Production experience operating Kubernetes, ideally both EKS and self-managed clusters.
• Python and Infrastructure as Code: Strong Python skills; IaC experience; AWS CDK preferred; capable of reading/adjusting TypeScript.
• CI/CD and Containers: Experience building pipelines with GitHub Actions, building and securing container images, and deploying with Helm and GitOps tools like Argo CD or Flux.
• Observability and On-Call: Experience with monitoring/logging tools and on-call rotations.
• Linux and Networking Fundamentals: Linux administration, TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, TLS, VPN.
• Clear Communication: Explain trade-offs to engineers and non-engineers.
• Startup Orientation: Comfortable in fast-moving, resource-constrained environment.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and Run the Hybrid Kubernetes Platform: Stand up and operate Amazon EKS clusters and self-managed Kubernetes clusters.
• Deliver and Extend Our AWS Environment: Build infrastructure in Python with AWS CDK across our multi-account organization.
• Partner with the Teams We Serve: Work with Digital, Data Engineering, and other teams to provide environments, access and pipelines.
• Own Pipelines and Deployment Patterns: Build and maintain CI/CD workflows and GitOps deployments to Kubernetes.
• Keep Things Running: Participate in on-call rotation, respond to incidents and write postmortems.
• Automate Away Toil: Turn repeated requests into self-service tooling.
• Document and Share: Write runbooks and design notes for teams.

Skills

AWS Experience

Kubernetes Ops

Python & IaC

CI/CD & GitOps

Observability

Linux Networking

Clear Communication

Startup Mindset

On-Call Experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

Helm

Argo CD

Flux

Kubernetes

Rancher

Job description

Slate seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to build and run a hybrid Kubernetes platform across AWS and in-house infrastructure. You’ll collaborate with Digital, Data Engineering, and enterprise teams to deliver environments, access, and pipelines, while owning CI/CD workflows and GitOps deployments.

You will participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and craft runbooks and design notes to empower teams and reduce toil. A strong background in AWS, Kubernetes, Python, and IaC is essential.