Associate Cloud & DevOps Engineer

First Orion

$70K — $95K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in DevOps and Cloud engineering
  • Expertise in Terraform and AWS services (EKS, IAM, networking)
  • Proficient in Kubernetes management and Helm
  • Experience with CI/CD pipeline automation and Bitbucket Pipelines
  • Familiarity with observability tools like OpenTelemetry and New Relic
  • Knowledge of container optimization and security best practices
  • Team player with collaborative mindset to work with developers

Responsibilities

  • Provision and manage AWS resources using Terraform
  • Oversee EKS cluster lifecycle and tuning of node management
  • Design and implement networking configurations within AWS
  • Author and maintain Helm charts for Kubernetes applications
  • Setup and maintain CI/CD automated deployment scripts
  • Integrate observability tools and maintain monitoring dashboards
  • Plan for capacity, multi-region architectures, and disaster recovery

Benefits

  • Open PTO and company-paid holidays
  • Flex Fridays and flexible work arrangements
  • Access to a state-of-the-art fitness center
  • Generous health and dental/vision coverage
  • Retirement plans and learning/development programs
  • Tuition reimbursement and career path frameworks
  • Bonus potential and company options
Full Job Description

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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