First Orion
• $70K — $95K *Qualifications
Responsibilities
Benefits
First Orion is seeking a skilled Cloud & DevOps Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and delivery infrastructure that gets code from developer machines to productionsafely, andkeeps it running there. You'llhave full decision authority over how infrastructure is provisioned, how services get to production, and what reliability looks like.
What you’ll be doing:
Infrastructure & Cloud
Provision and manage all AWS resources via Terraform (EKS, VPC, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, S3, IAM, KMS, CloudFront)
EKS cluster lifecycle (upgrades, node management, Karpenter tuning)
Networking: VPCs, subnets, transit gateway routes, security groups, VPC endpoints
Kubernetes & GitOps
Helm chart authoring and maintenance
ArgoCD application definitions and sync policies
Horizontal Pod Autoscaling, ingress controllers (Traefik), TLS (cert-manager), DNS (externaldns)
CI/CD & Delivery
Bitbucket Pipelines structure, step definitions, deployment gates
Deployment automation scripts and OIDC-based pipeline authentication to AWS
Dockerfile optimization (multi-stage builds, layer caching, base image selection)
Observability
OpenTelemetry collector deployment and New Relic integration
Define instrumentation standards for developers
Own dashboards, build, maintain, and iterate on what's monitored
Security & Reliability
Capacity planning, multi-region architecture, failover strategy, and disaster recovery
What you’ll need:
Strong Terraform and AWS experience (EKS, IAM, networking, data stores)
Kubernetes expertise (Helm, autoscaling, ingress, secrets management)
CI/CD pipeline design and automation
Observability stack experience (OpenTelemetry, New Relic or similar)
Container optimization and security best practices
Collaborative mindset, you’ll work closely with developers to set and enforce platform standards
Company Benefits:
Balancing the work-life flow is key to health and happiness! That is why we offer one of the most competitive packages in our industry with open PTO, company paid holidays, Flex Fridays and flexible work arrangements. We strongly value the health and wellness of our teammates and through our state-of-the-art fitness center we’re helping our teammates reach their wellness goals while at work. Add on generous health and dental/vision options, retirement plans, learning and development programs, career path frameworks, tuition reimbursement, company options and bonus potential you have many ways to take advantage of a comprehensive benefits package that means the most to you!
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