Senior Kubernetes & Cloud Engineer - EKS, GitOps & Observability

Xealth; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Comprehensive medical, dental, and виж

Laptop and home office stipend

Learning & development opportunities

401k Match

Flexible time off and holidays

$500 yearly fitness stipend

Job summary

Xealth in Seattle is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own our AWS EKS Kubernetes platform and the open‑source ecosystem that powers it. This hands‑on, high‑ownership role demands architectural thinking, relentless automation, and a focus on reliability, security, and observability across environments.

You’ll lead GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD, manage Terraform IaC, champion OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and collaborate with engineering teams to scale the platform while maintaining

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of hands‑on systems/platform engineering experience.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise — scheduling, networking, storage, RBAC, and cluster internals.
• Production experience running workloads on AWS EKS.
• Strong Linux fundamentals — systemd, networking, kernel tuning, troubleshooting.
• Proficiency with Terraform for AWS infrastructure management.
• Hands‑on experience with ArgoCD or Flux in production GitOps workflow.
• Experience building and operating Prometheus/Grafana observability stacks.
• Working knowledge of OpenTelemetry — collectors, instrumentation libraries, pipeline configuration.
• Programming and scripting experience with Python, Typescript, Bash.
• Comfort operating in a regulated environment (HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar).

Responsibilities

• EKS cluster platform — day‑to‑day operations, version lifecycle management, node group strategy, cluster upgrades, capacity planning.
• GitOps delivery pipeline — own and evolve ArgoCD deployment workflows, enforce GitOps patterns, promote production readiness.
• Observability stack — build/maintain Prometheus/Grafana, define SLOs, alerts, dashboards for actionable signals.
• Infrastructure‑as‑code — manage Terraform codebases for AWS infra; enforce IaC standards and reviews.
• OpenTelemetry instrumentation — lead adoption and standardization of OTel across services for tracing, metrics, logs.
• Linux systems health — OS configuration, hardening, patching, performance tuning across compute fleet.
• Security & compliance posture — partner with eng and security on IAM, secrets, network policies, audit readiness (HIPAA/SOC2).

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

ArgoCD

OpenTelemetry

Python

Typescript

Bash

Linux

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

ArgoCD

Flux

Job description

Xealth in Seattle is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own our AWS EKS Kubernetes platform and the open‑source ecosystem that powers it. This hands‑on, high‑ownership role demands architectural thinking, relentless automation, and a focus on reliability, security, and observability across environments.

You’ll lead GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD, manage Terraform IaC, champion OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and collaborate with engineering teams to scale the platform while maintaining