Software Eng, Sr Staff - DevOps

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will help architect and manage modern CI/CD platforms, GitOps workflows, and production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure across AWS environments. You will partner closely with engineering teams to provide the tooling, guardrails, and platform expertise they need to succeed, while bringing a strong automation mindset and a RealOwnership approach to everything you build.

What you'll do:

CI/CD Platform & Delivery Excellence

• Architect and manage robust CircleCI pipelines, runner clusters, and self-service automation tools to streamline secure application delivery in cloud environments.

• Deploy and evolve GitOps workflows across multiple clusters using ArgoCD to automate application lifecycle management across environments.

• Partner with engineering squads to provide the tooling, automated pipelines, and technical expertise needed for successful delivery.

Cloud Infrastructure & Kubernetes

• Design and manage production-ready AWS EKS infrastructure across resilient multi-region and multi-cluster architectures.

• Manage container scheduling and cluster scaling using Karpenter, ensuring secure, healthy, and highly available EKS environments.

• Enforce strong Kubernetes security practices through Network Policies and IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA).

Service Mesh, Reliability & Engineering Standards

• Architect and support Istio Service Mesh implementations to regulate traffic, enforce mTLS, and protect service-to-service communication.

• Develop advanced routing, ingress and egress gateway patterns, and traffic strategies such as circuit breaking and canary releases.

• Diagnose and resolve sophisticated issues across service mesh data planes, multi-cluster deployments, and distributed systems operations.

• Mentor engineering teams on DevOps best practices and help raise the maturity of our platform and delivery architecture.

• Embed security, resilience, performance, and cost-efficiency as core considerations in every initiative.

• 6+ years of cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, or DevOps platform experience.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS services such as EKS, EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, and IAM.

• 2+ years of expert-level experience administering production-grade Amazon EKS and containerized workloads.

• 1+ years of production experience designing and managing Istio Service Mesh in distributed or multi-cluster environments.

Technical Skills

• CI/CD & GitOps: CircleCI, ArgoCD, and self-service platform automation.

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, multi-cluster environments, and cluster scaling.

• Security & Reliability: Kubernetes Network Policies, IRSA, mTLS, traffic management, and distributed systems troubleshooting.

• Platform Engineering: Experience building tooling and paved-path solutions that enable engineering teams to move faster and more safely.

Nice to Have

• Experience with CircleCI.

• Certifications such as CKA, CKS, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional.

• Hands-on experience or familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and GKE.

• Manage container scheduling and cluster scaling, to ensure secure, healthy, and highly available EKS environments.

• Mentor engineering teams on DevOps best practices and help raise the maturity of our platform and delivery architecture.

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