(1113671) Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS & Kubernetes

Diversified Services Network, Inc.

$125K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure roles.
  • 3+ years of experience with GitHub Actions workflows.
  • 5+ years of architecture-level AWS services experience.
  • 3+ years managing production workloads on Amazon EKS.
  • Expert-level knowledge in Terraform and a scripting language (Python or Bash).

Responsibilities

  • Design and optimize CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions.
  • Build and standardize reusable GitHub Actions and workflow templates.
  • Manage secured environment variables and deployment keys securely.
  • Implement OIDC for secure GitHub Actions runner authentication.
  • Design and maintain AWS EKS and Kubernetes clusters.
  • Execute zero-downtime upgrades and routine maintenance.
  • Configure autoscaling strategies for cost-effective operations.

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Health insurance
  • Health savings account
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Paid holidays
Full Job Description
Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS & Kubernetes

In this role, you will lead the organization's containerization strategy, build enterprise-grade automation workflows utilizing GitHub Actions, and manage the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) lifecycle to ensure high availability, optimal performance, and cost efficiency. You will work closely with a team of six, driving CI/CD automation, Kubernetes cluster management, cloud infrastructure, and DevSecOps practices.

Key Responsibilities

CI/CD & GitHub Actions Automation
  • Workflow Architecture: Design, build, and optimize matrixed, self-hosted, or cloud-hosted GitHub Actions workflows for continuous integration and automated testing.
  • Reusable Infrastructure: Build and maintain version-controlled custom GitHub Actions and reusable workflow templates to standardize pipelines across multiple engineering teams.
  • Secret Management: Manage secure environment variables, contexts, and deployment keys using GitHub Secrets, Environments, and integrations with AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault.
  • Secure Delivery: Implement OpenID Connect (OIDC) to authenticate GitHub Actions runners natively with AWS IAM, eliminating long-lived credentials.

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration
  • Cluster Management: Design, deploy, and maintain multi-cluster production AWS EKS and Kubernetes environments.
  • Upgrades & Maintenance: Execute seamless, zero-downtime cluster upgrades, patch releases, and routine maintenance node recycling.
  • Autoscaling & Cost Optimization: Configure and tune cluster autoscaling using tools like Karpenter or Cluster Autoscaler, alongside horizontal/vertical pod autoscaling (HPA/VPA).
  • Package Management: Build, maintain, and version control internal Helm charts for streamlined application delivery.

AWS Infrastructure & Automation
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provision and manage 100% of cloud resources using Terraform or AWS CDK to maintain strict environment consistency.
  • Cloud Architecture: Administer core AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Route53, and RDS platforms.
  • Scripting & Tooling: Write clean, maintainable automation scripts using Python and Bash to eliminate manual interventions.

GitOps & Release Management
  • GitOps Adoption: Implement and maintain GitOps-driven deployment frameworks utilizing tools like ArgoCD or Flux to sync EKS state with source repositories.
  • Container Registry: Oversee Docker container builds, multi-stage layering, and registry vulnerability management via AWS ECR, triggered natively via GitHub Actions runner hooks.


Networking, Security, & DevSecOps
  • Cloud Networking: Manage sophisticated container networking interfaces (VPC CNI) and advanced ingress routing controllers (ALB, NGINX, or Traefik).
  • Access Control: Enforce security guardrails utilizing AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) to grant fine-grained pod permissions.

Requirements

Candidate Requirements

Experience Required
  • No degree required.
  • 5+ years of professional experience in dedicated DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or cloud infrastructure roles.
  • 3+ years of heavy practical experience writing, testing, and modularizing complex GitHub Actions workflows.
  • 5+ years of hands-on, architecture-focused experience across major AWS services.
  • 3+ years of deep technical experience running production-grade workloads on Amazon EKS, including advanced troubleshooting.
  • Expert proficiency with Terraform and at least one scripting language (Python or Bash).

Preferred Qualifications
  • Certifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), CKAD, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.
  • Runner Administration: Experience managing scaling policies for enterprise-scale GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on Kubernetes (e.g., using Actions Runner Controller - ARC).

Benefits
  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Health insurance
  • Health savings account
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Paid Holidays

Please follow the link to our website for a list of job openings in Engineering, IT, Project Management, and more! https://www.dsnworldwide.com

Salary expectations: 125,000-130,000 per annual

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