Senior DevOps Engineer – Cloud Platform

Profile: Senior DevOps Engineer – Cloud Platform
Location: Miamisburg, OH – Onsite
Experience: 8+ Years

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on experience in AWS production infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and automation. The ideal candidate will own cloud platform reliability, deployment automation, observability, and production troubleshooting.

Top 5 Required Skills

1. AWS Production Infrastructure – Building, deploying, and operating production workloads on AWS.

2. Infrastructure as Code – Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.

3. Containers & Orchestration – Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and containerized production environments.

4. CI/CD & GitOps – GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent technologies.

5. Scripting & Troubleshooting – Python, Bash, or PowerShell, with strong production debugging and incident resolution skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and maintain reliable, scalable AWS production infrastructure.

• Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules and Infrastructure as Code workflows.

• Manage Kubernetes clusters, Docker containers, Helm charts, and production deployments.

• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based release automation.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning, operational tasks, and troubleshooting using Python/Bash.

• Implement observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or equivalent tools.

• Troubleshoot complex production issues involving networking, DNS, certificates, IAM, secrets, Linux, and cloud security.

• Improve platform reliability, availability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

• Collaborate with software engineering, platform, architecture, and infrastructure teams.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, SRE, or related roles.

• Strong hands-on experience operating AWS production environments.

• Proven expertise in Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code tools.

• Practical experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.

• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

• Experience with metrics, logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing.

• Solid understanding of Linux, networking, DNS, TLS/SSL certificates, IAM, secrets management, and cloud security.

• Demonstrated ownership of production troubleshooting and issue resolution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms.

• Internal developer platforms, self-service infrastructure, and reusable deployment patterns.

• Cloud security automation, vulnerability management, compliance, and governance.

• High availability, disaster recovery, resilience, and business continuity.

• Strong technical documentation, decision-making, and cross-team communication.

• AWS certification or equivalent practical AWS expertise.