Staff DevOps Architect: Hybrid Kubernetes on AWS (Remote)

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 156,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Life & disability insurance

Paid vacation/PTO

401(k) retirement plan

Equity opportunities

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Devops to shape a leader in Manufacturing & Automotive's core cloud and container platform. Remote work available with strong focus on reliable, secure, and scalable operations across production environments.

You will partner with engineering, data, and operations teams to support manufacturing workloads and emerging business needs, leading platform reliability and deployment standardization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps or reliability roles with production platforms.
• Deep AWS expertise with multi-account governance and hybrid connectivity.
• Production Kubernetes on EKS and self-managed clusters.
• Strong Python and infrastructure as code (AWS CDK preferred).

Responsibilities

• Architect a hybrid Kubernetes platform across Amazon EKS and self-managed clusters.
• Evolve the multi-account AWS environment, with a focus on governance and connectivity.
• Establish the reliability practice, including on-call rotation and observability standards.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to provide CI/CD templates and self-service environments.
• Shape platform support for manufacturing, data pipelines, and emerging workloads.
• Implement security and cost discipline through policy guardrails and resource management.
• Mentor engineers and document processes to enable team autonomy.

Skills

DevOps experience

AWS expertise

Kubernetes in production

Python

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

Reliability engineering

Hybrid networking

Tools

AWS CDK

GitOps tooling

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Devops to shape a leader in Manufacturing & Automotive's core cloud and container platform. Remote work available with strong focus on reliable, secure, and scalable operations across production environments.

You will partner with engineering, data, and operations teams to support manufacturing workloads and emerging business needs, leading platform reliability and deployment standardization.