DevOps Engineer

About This Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will own the end-to-end lifecycle of Kubernetes-based applications, from onboarding and CI/CD integration to production readiness and operational excellence. This role requires strong technical ownership and the ability to operate in a fast-paced, regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Kubernetes application onboarding across on-prem and cloud environments
• Build and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for container image builds and deployments across multiple image registries
• Implement authentication and authorization workflows using Keycloak and AWS IAM across EKS and on-prem Kubernetes clusters
• Design and operate Kafka clusters, including monitoring, scaling, and operational support
• Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting solutions for container networking and storage
• Conduct production-readiness reviews and maintain onboarding checklists for Kubernetes workloads
• Automate operational procedures including disaster recovery, stress testing, and environment provisioning using Python
• Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis, document issues, and implement preventive measures
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including SLIs, error budgets, alerting strategies, incident reviews, and participation in an on-call rotation

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building Linux containers and working with container orchestration platforms
• 3+ years of experience authoring and managing Kubernetes manifests, including Helm Charts and Kustomize
• Strong experience with Kubernetes networking, including ingress controllers (e.g., NGINX), service mesh, and container networking
• Solid understanding of TLS, certificates, and secure communications
• Experience implementing GitOps workflows using tools such as Flux or Argo CD
• Proficiency in Shell scripting and Python
• Strong Linux systems background and deep understanding of containerization principles
• Experience with observability tooling, including Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, and Splunk
• Hands-on experience managing Kafka clusters
• Experience with Jenkins or comparable CI/CD frameworks
• Familiarity with web services, APIs, REST/RPC, HTTPS APIs, and service discovery mechanisms
• Experience with AWS services, including EKS, EC2, Load Balancers, VPCs, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Network Firewalls, and ECS
• Experience building observability using CloudWatch Logs and Alarms
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably AWS CDK (Python or Node.js)
• 3+ years of experience using cloud technologies to support large-scale business applications

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 3+ years of experience building Linux containers and working with container orchestration platforms and 3+ years of experience authoring and managing Kubernetes manifests. Also requires 3+ years of experience using cloud technologies to support large-scale business applications.

Nice to Have

• Programming experience in Java, Groovy, Node.js, or React
• Experience managing identity and access management lifecycles, particularly with Keycloak and AWS IAM
• Background supporting systems in financial services or other regulated industries
• Go experience

Skills

* Required skills