Sr DevOps Engineer: Cloud & Kubernetes Reliability (Remote)

Doist; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan

Retirement Plan (401k)

Life Insurance

Flexible Paid Time Off

9 paid Holidays

Family Leave

Remote

Hybrid work (for Orlando Associates)

Free Food & Snacks (Orlando)

Wellness Resources

Job summary

Worth AI, a leader in the computer software industry, seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Infrastructure team. You will write Terraform, tune Kubernetes workloads, automate manual tasks, and ship infrastructure changes to production.

You will own the Kubernetes platform, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and design secure networking across environments while driving cost efficiency and resilience. This role is remote with travel to Orlando as needed.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• Proven experience designing and operating production Kubernetes environments at scale.
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS infrastructure and cloud networking.
• Strong experience building and maintaining Terraform modules across large cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ownership of CI/CD systems and measurable improvement of DORA metrics.
• Experience leading incident response processes and driving meaningful postmortem outcomes.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures (Kafka), and database performance (PostgreSQL).
• Proven ability to modernize legacy infrastructure and eliminate manual operational toil.
• Track record of taking a scoped infrastructure project from an ambiguous starting point to production without daily direction.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust across teams while raising the reliability bar.

Responsibilities

• Implement scalable Infrastructure-as-Code patterns using Terraform to standardize cloud provisioning and reduce drift.
• Own and evolve our Kubernetes platform (EKS or self-managed) for secure, scalable workloads.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment frequency and reduce lead time.
• Design and enforce secure networking, IAM, and secrets management across environments.
• Improve observability with metrics, logs, and tracing using DataDog for actionable insights.
• Improve cloud cost efficiency through rightsizing and autoscaling strategies.
• Implement disaster recovery, backups, and multi-region resilience initiatives.
• Refactor brittle infrastructure into automated, testable, reproducible systems.
• Introduce new tooling or architectural shifts and drive adoption with docs and workshops.
• Partner with engineering to remove friction in CI/CD, deployments, and cloud environments.
• Communicate trade-offs clearly across engineering and product stakeholders.

Skills

Kubernetes operations

AWS infrastructure

CI/CD processes

Incident response

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL performance

Kafka operations

Terraform modules

Cost optimization

SRE / DevOps leadership

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

DataDog

GitHub Actions

AWS (EKS)

ArgoCD

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Job description

Worth AI, a leader in the computer software industry, seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Infrastructure team. You will write Terraform, tune Kubernetes workloads, automate manual tasks, and ship infrastructure changes to production.

You will own the Kubernetes platform, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and design secure networking across environments while driving cost efficiency and resilience. This role is remote with travel to Orlando as needed.