Senior Platform & DevOps Leader - Kubernetes & AWS

Transaction Network Services (TNS); Illinois; On-site; USD 125,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Transaction Network Services (TNS) is seeking a senior, hands-on engineering leader to own and evolve the platforms, infrastructure, and software delivery capabilities behind our network automation strategy. This role collaborates with Automation Developers, Network Engineers, Security, and cloud teams to build a scalable, secure automation ecosystem.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in IT engineering with 5+ years in DevOps/platform engineering, strong Kubernetes, AWS, and CI/CD experience,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive IT engineering experience, incl. 5+ years in DevOps or platform engineering.
• Proven experience deploying and operating production apps on Kubernetes.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience including IAM, EKS, EC2, VPCs, S3, monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, deployment, operation, and lifecycle of network automation apps and services.
• Design and operate containerized apps on Kubernetes using Helm, Argo, and Terraform.
• Lead platform upgrades, plugin lifecycle management, perf tuning, and observability improvements.
• Establish reliable release processes across dev, test, and prod environments.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Helm

Docker

GitLab

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Distributed systems

Leadership

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Python

Django

Job description

Transaction Network Services (TNS) is seeking a senior, hands-on engineering leader to own and evolve the platforms, infrastructure, and software delivery capabilities behind our network automation strategy. This role collaborates with Automation Developers, Network Engineers, Security, and cloud teams to build a scalable, secure automation ecosystem.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in IT engineering with 5+ years in DevOps/platform engineering, strong Kubernetes, AWS, and CI/CD experience,