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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Eng, Sr Staff - DevOps - **Company:** Realty Professionals, LLC - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Kubernetes Security, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Application Lifecycle Management, Computing Platforms, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Computer Networks, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Identity and Access Management, Circleci, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Istio, Delivery Pipeline, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Route53, AWS EKS - **Published:** July 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gdv40e ## About the Role + 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. ## Description 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. ## Related Videos - [Hosting a modern justice system](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/332-hosting-a-modern-justice-system) - [Building a Cloud Platform Where Everything is Just Another Kubernetes Resource](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100137-building-a-cloud-platform-where-everything-is-just-another-kubernetes-resource) - [Rate-limiting using eBPF and Istio: How to protect your SaaS customers from themselves](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100220-rate-limiting-using-ebpf-and-istio-how-to-protect-your-saas-customers-from-themselves) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [My journey into DevOps world - How it all started!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/545-my-journey-into-devops-world-how-it-all-started) - [Remote Driving on Plant Grounds with State-of-the-Art Cloud Technologies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/251-remote-driving-on-plant-grounds-with-state-of-the-art-cloud-technologies) ## Related Articles - [Learning Kubernetes made easy with KubeCampus](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/348-learning-kubernetes-made-easy-with-kubecampus) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [The Best Software Developer Blogs to Read](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/156-the-best-software-developer-blogs-to-read) - [DevOps Engineer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/203-devops-engineer-salary-2023) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers)