Senior SRE & DevOps - Agent-First Reliability Engineer

Dover; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Kintsugi is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps) to scale and harden production infrastructure across managed Kubernetes and AWS. You’ll own reliability, reduce toil, and build tooling that lets engineers move fast without sacrificing stability.

You will collaborate with Platform Engineering, Product, and QA to design resilient architectures, improve deployment pipelines, and extend internal tools that support engineering velocity while preserving security and observability.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles with ownership of a production system at meaningful scale
• Fluent agent-first daily work — directing coding agents to do real engineering work
• Strong foundation in AWS-hosted data & networking (RDS/Postgres, ElastiCache/Redis, VPC) and managed Kubernetes
• Track record of building tools that remove manual work (scripts, services, internal platforms)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Observability expertise (metrics, tracing, logging) and modern monitoring practices
• Familiarity with cloud security/compliance (SOC 2, GDPR a plus)
• Collaborative mindset to empower developers to move fast safely
• Experience with developer enablement — internal tooling and platforms for productivity
• Nice to have: multi-cloud operations across providers

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability of production infrastructure on Kubernetes and AWS
• Work agent-first day to day: build, debug, and automate with agentic coding workflows
• Build internal tools and automation to eliminate recurring toil
• Develop and operate monitoring, alerting, and observability across the stack
• Partner with engineering teams to design for reliability and performance from the start
• Automate infrastructure management via infrastructure-as-code and improve CI/CD
• Lead and evolve incident response, including postmortems and blameless learning
• Optimize infrastructure for cost efficiency while maintaining high availability and security
• Contribute to security, compliance, and disaster recovery efforts
• Support developer enablement with in-house tooling and internal platforms

Skills

Agent-first mindset

AWS & Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Infrastructure as code

Security/compliance awareness

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Job description

Kintsugi is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps) to scale and harden production infrastructure across managed Kubernetes and AWS. You’ll own reliability, reduce toil, and build tooling that lets engineers move fast without sacrificing stability.

You will collaborate with Platform Engineering, Product, and QA to design resilient architectures, improve deployment pipelines, and extend internal tools that support engineering velocity while preserving security and observability.