Senior DevOps Engineer ID85148

AgileEngine is an Inc. 5000 company that creates award-winning software for Fortune 500 brands and trailblazing startups across 17+ industries. We rank among the leaders in areas like application development and AI/ML, and our people-first culture has earned us multiple Best Place to Work awards.

WHY JOIN US
If you're looking for a place to grow, make an impact, and work with people who care, we'd love to meet you!

ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the infrastructure and delivery layer supporting our engineering teams. You will manage Kubernetes on EKS, evolve Terraform-based infrastructure as code, and build GitOps pipelines with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Atlantis. This role also covers observability, security posture, and partnering directly with Tech Leads to translate requirements into production-ready infrastructure, with a part-time engagement through December.

WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Infrastructure as Code: Own and evolve Terraform-based IaC for AWS resources, applying review discipline and change-safety practices to infrastructure the way engineers apply them to application code.
- Kubernetes Platform Operations: Provision, configure, and maintain EKS clusters — workload scheduling, autoscaling, resource limits, ingress, and networking — supporting both long-running services and containerized batch/worker processing.
- CI/CD & GitOps Delivery: Build and maintain deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Atlantis, with a focus on repeatable, auditable, low-drama releases and clear rollback paths.
- Environment & Secrets Management: Maintain consistent, reproducible environments across dev/staging/prod, including secrets handling, configuration, and IAM/permission boundaries.
- Observability: Instrument the platform for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting so that engineers can diagnose their own issues, and so that failures surface before users find them.
- Data & Application Infrastructure Support: Provision and support the infrastructure underpinning the data stack (S3-backed data lake, Glue/Athena, Airflow-orchestrated batch processing) and application dependencies (PostgreSQL, Redis) — supporting the platform, not authoring the pipelines or application logic.
- Requirements Partnership: Work directly with Tech Leads and engineers to clarify functional and non-functional requirements — capacity, latency, availability, cost, and security — rather than taking infrastructure requests at face value.
- Cost & Reliability Stewardship: Monitor and challenge infrastructure cost and reliability tradeoffs, surfacing them early rather than after the bill or the incident.
- Synchronous Collaboration: Work daily alongside engineers over Slack and Google Meet.

MUST HAVES
- 5–7 years of DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience with a track record of owning production infrastructure.
- AWS depth: hands-on production experience across core services — EKS, S3, IAM, VPC/networking, RDS — with the ability to reason about cost and security implications of design choices, not just get things running.
- Kubernetes: real operational experience with EKS or comparable managed Kubernetes — deployments, services, ingress, autoscaling, resource management, and debugging workloads that misbehave in production.
- Infrastructure as Code: strong Terraform proficiency, including module design, state management, and safe change practices for live infrastructure.
- CI/CD & GitOps: hands-on experience building pipelines with GitHub Actions (or comparable), and with GitOps-style continuous delivery via ArgoCD, Flux, or similar. Exposure to Atlantis or an equivalent PR-driven Terraform workflow.
- Containerization: Docker fluency — image design, layer/size optimization, multi-stage builds, and registry management.
- Observability: experience instrumenting systems with logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or comparable).
- Scripting & automation: strong Bash, plus enough Python to write and maintain automation, tooling, and glue code — this role reads and writes real code, even if it doesn't own the application.
- Security fundamentals: least-privilege IAM design, secrets management, network segmentation, and a working understanding of how identity/authorization flows (e.g., Auth0-based) affect infrastructure design.
- Data infrastructure literacy: enough familiarity with object-storage-backed data lakes and serverless query engines (S3/Glue/Athena or equivalent) and DAG-based orchestrators (Airflow or comparable) to provision, support, and troubleshoot them — without owning pipeline authorship.
- Highly comfortable in Mac/Linux terminal-centric environments (Bash, Makefiles).
- Practical, hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code), paired with the critical judgment to challenge AI output when it compromises long-term maintainability — a bar that applies with particular force to infrastructure code, where an unreviewed AI-suggested change can affect live systems.
- Strong soft skills (mandatory, not a bonus): the ability to hold and defend a technical opinion — challenging a stakeholder's or a tool's proposed "quick fix" with sound reasoning in pursuit of a solution that scales and is maintainable long-term, while still being pragmatic enough to ship.
- Risk awareness around stateful systems (mandatory): the instinct to identify and clearly communicate data-integrity and availability risks without being prompted — distinguishing reversible changes from irreversible ones, and treating anything touching persistent state or live traffic with appropriate caution.
- Comfort with ambiguity (mandatory): work is frequently ad hoc and underspecified. This role requires defining the problem — gathering context, identifying constraints, and framing the work — before solving it, rather than waiting for a specification. Experience limited to well-specified work executed through agent workflows is not a fit.
- Upper-Intermediate English level.

NICE TO HAVES
- Direct production experience with Atlantis, ArgoCD, or Athena/Glue specifically.
- Experience running Airflow or a comparable orchestrator as a platform service.
- Auth0, openfga/ReBAC, or fine-grained authorization infrastructure experience.
- FinOps or sustained AWS cost-optimization work.
- Service mesh, advanced Kubernetes networking, or multi-cluster operations.
- Database operations experience — PostgreSQL tuning, backup/restore strategy, and supporting migrations against live systems.
- Exposure to AWS Bedrock or the infrastructure/permissions side of LLM-backed workloads.
- Incident response and postmortem practice in a team setting.

PERKS AND BENEFITS
- Growth without limits: build your skills through mentorship, internal TechTalks, challenging projects, and a dedicated annual learning budget
- Competitive compensation: get recognition that reflects your skills and impact, with regular performance and compensation reviews
- Flexibility: work 100% remotely with flexible hours that support focus, autonomy, and a healthy work rhythm
- Meaningful, modern projects: build impactful products using modern technologies alongside global teams and leading brands
- Collaborative culture: join a supportive environment with zero micromanagement where ideas are welcomed and contributions are recognized
- Well-being & support: access local well-being programs and people-focused support tailored to your location