DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer Time Zones: Applicants in EST will be given preference. Employment Type: Permanent / Direct Hire. Compensation: $120k–$130k (depending on experience). No sponsorship will be offered for this role now or in the future This Senior DevOps Engineer role owns the reliability, automation, and day-to-day operability of a Kubernetes-based platform. Success requires deep, hands-on cluster administration and troubleshooting, plus the ability to improve CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code practices with minimal direction. You will assess what’s in place, drive best-practice improvements, and establish clear standards that enable engineering teams to deliver safely and consistently. Responsibilities: Take ownership of the Kubernetes platform by assessing the current cluster architecture, identifying gaps, and driving remediation through to stable, supportable outcomes. Lead cluster-level troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across networking, storage, scheduling, resource constraints, and workload failures; implement preventative fixes to reduce repeat incidents. Build, maintain, and improve automated CI/CD pipelines in GitHub to standardize build, test, and deployment workflows and shorten release cycles. Implement Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage platform and environment configurations in a repeatable, version-controlled way. Establish and enforce DevOps standards and best practices, including pipeline conventions, deployment patterns, and operational guardrails; provide clear technical direction when tradeoffs arise. Strengthen Git-based delivery practices by improving how configuration and deployment changes are reviewed, promoted, and audited across environments. Develop runbooks and operational documentation that make the platform easier to support, troubleshoot, and evolve over time. Partner with engineering teams to remove friction in build and deployment processes, resolve pipeline and platform issues, and improve delivery reliability. Required Skills: 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, or a similar role. Deep hands-on administration of Kubernetes environments, including cluster-level troubleshooting/debugging, architecture understanding, and root-cause analysis. Strong CI/CD experience, including building and maintaining automated build/test/deploy pipelines using GitHub (e.g., GitHub Actions/Workflows). Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform, Helm, or Ansible). Preferred Skills: Experience operating Red Hat OpenShift clusters in production. Hands-on AWS/EKS experience, including planning or supporting a cloud migration to AWS. Experience supporting Kubernetes platforms hosted on IBM Cloud. Experience implementing GitOps workflows with ArgoCD. Experience with Flux or comparable GitOps tooling for declarative delivery. Experience using Kustomize to manage environment overlays and configuration. Experience packaging and deploying applications using Helm charts. Experience leading or supporting Kubernetes/cloud migration efforts, including cutover planning and risk mitigation. Experience working in healthcare, financial services, or other regulated environments with strong audit and change-control expectations. Strong GitOps experience managing declarative infrastructure and application deployments end-to-end. Experience supporting Maven-based build and dependency management workflows. Ability to develop automation/tooling in Python to reduce manual operational effort and improve platform reliability.