Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer ID96251

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We are looking for a Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer to deploy and operationalize a new Kubernetes-based cloud environment on AWS for a short-term project.

- 5+ years of DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering experience.

- 4+ years supporting Kubernetes in production environments.

- Demonstrated experience deploying and operating AWS-hosted applications.

- Experience leading technical implementation efforts with minimal supervision.

- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.

- Strong experience with Kubernetes, EKS, and Helm.

- Strong experience with Argo CD and Service Mesh technologies.

- Strong experience with ingress controllers, container networking, storage and persistence, and cluster operations and upgrades.

- Strong experience with AWS services, including VPC, EC2, EKS, IAM, Route 53, ALB/NLB, RDS, CloudWatch, S3, Secrets Manager, and Systems Manager Parameter Store.

- Experience with GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, GitOps workflows, Infrastructure as Code, and Terraform.

- Experience with Bash, Python, or Go.

- Upper-intermediate English level.

- Experience with one or more of the following CNCF ecosystem technologies: Cilium, Hubble, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, Karpenter, Crossplane, Kyverno, Tetragon, ExternalDNS, and cert-manager.

- Experience with Backstage, Internal Developer Platforms, Self-Service Infrastructure, Golden Path Engineering, and Environment Automation.

- Experience with Robin Cloud Native Platform (Rakuten Symphony Robin).

- Experience migrating applications from on-premises environments to cloud-hosted Kubernetes.

- Experience supporting healthcare, medical device, HIPAA, or regulated environments.

- Experience integrating acquired company technology stacks into enterprise cloud platforms.

- Experience documenting operational procedures and performing technical knowledge transfer.

- Lead deployment of a new cloud environment within AWS or other Cloud provider.

- Ensure deployment follows security, reliability, and operational best practices.

- Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and operations teams throughout the implementation.

- Deploy and manage workloads running on Kubernetes platforms.

- Troubleshoot cluster, networking, ingress, storage, and workload issues.

- Support application modernization and containerization efforts where needed.

- Implement platform standards and operational guardrails.

- Design and enhance GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

- Implement deployment automation and release workflows.

- Establish GitOps deployment patterns using tools such as Argo CD.

- Improve traceability, repeatability, and deployment reliability.

- Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and related tooling.

- Implement modular, reusable infrastructure patterns.

- Reduce manual deployment activities through automation.

- Configure platform monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards.

- Support production readiness reviews and operational runbooks.

- Establish reliability practices and incident response procedures.

- Identify bottlenecks and performance issues across cloud and Kubernetes environments.

- Evaluate existing deployment practices and operational processes.

- Document platform architecture, deployment procedures, and operational support requirements.

- Produce runbooks and knowledge-transfer documentation for support teams.

- Professional growth: Mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps.

- Competitive compensation: USD-based pay with education, fitness, and team activity budgets.

- Exciting projects: Modern solutions with Fortune 500 and top product companies.

- Flextime: Flexible schedule with remote and office options.