Senior DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes team)

Hidden Jobs; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage from day one

Retirement savings

Birthday leave

Mental health support

Work-from-home reimbursements

Job summary

StackAdapt, a remote-first employer, seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to own AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes deployments, and reliability improvements for a high-traffic ad platform. You will build shared services and empower engineering teams through IaC and robust monitoring.

Candidates bring 5+ years in DevOps, strong AWS production experience, Terraform experience at scale, Kubernetes ownership, and proficiency with Prometheus and Grafana.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve shared infrastructure and platform services used across engineering.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Incident management

Tools

Terrateam

Ansible

Vault

Consul

ArgoCD

Packer

Redis

GitHub Actions

Job description

Role overview

Senior DevOps Engineer opening on a Kubernetes-focused infrastructure team supporting a high-traffic advertising platform. The role centers on owning AWS infrastructure, hardening platform reliability, and enabling engineering teams through infrastructure-as-code and observability practices.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve shared infrastructure and platform services used across engineering.
• Own and optimize AWS services that underpin production workloads.
• Develop and manage infrastructure-as-code workflows, primarily with Terraform and Terrateam.
• Support reliable, secure deployments spanning cloud environments and Kubernetes clusters.
• Strengthen observability through metrics, logs, and tracing.
• Diagnose and resolve infrastructure and service issues within distributed systems.
• Define infrastructure standards, documentation, and operational practices that scale with the platform.
• Partner with engineering teams on resilient, scalable system design.

Requirements

• Five or more years of experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Strong track record operating AWS infrastructure in production.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code workflows at scale.
• Significant Kubernetes experience, including owning internal deployment pipelines and node management.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience supporting incident handling and production operations.

Nice to have

• Exposure to Terrateam, Ansible, Vault, Consul, ArgoCD, Packer, Redis, and GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with AWS networking concepts like VPCs, routing, load balancers, and security groups.
• Background working with large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure automation.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote-first position open to candidates based in Canada.
• Base salary band of $140,000-$192,500 CAD, with potential eligibility for additional compensation such as bonuses, commissions, equity awards, and a benefits package including health coverage from day one, retirement or pension savings, paid time off with a birthday off, mental health support, and work-from-home reimbursements.