Senior DevOps Engineer

Our Charlotte platform team is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to directly manage our production AWS environments and Kubernetes clusters. You will not be starting from scratch; your immediate focus will be migrating legacy microservices to EKS, refactoring our existing Terraform state, and cutting down deployment times by optimizing our GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

This is a hands-on engineering role requiring deep Linux internals knowledge, strict adherence to Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and experience debugging live distributed systems.

Technical Responsibilities

• Provision, scale, and maintain AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, MSK, ElastiCache) strictly through Terraform, managing state files via Terraform Cloud.
• Write, test, and deploy Helm charts for containerized Go and Python microservices running on AWS EKS.
• Architect and maintain multi-stage GitLab CI/CD pipelines, integrating automated unit testing and container vulnerability scanning (e.g., Trivy, SonarQube).
• Troubleshoot complex production networking and traffic routing issues involving AWS ALBs, NGINX Ingress controllers, and VPC peering.
• Configure Datadog APM, set up distributed tracing, and write custom PromQL queries to trigger automated PagerDuty alerts for latency and error rate spikes.
• Write Python or Bash scripts to automate routine operations, such as database snapshot management, IAM role rotation, and log archival.
• Participate in a Tier-3 on-call rotation to diagnose node failures, memory leaks, or DNS resolution issues in real-time.

• 5+ years of production experience as a DevOps Engineer, SRE, or Linux Systems Administrator.
• Deep, practical experience building and deploying infrastructure using Terraform (not just modifying existing templates).
• Proven experience administering Kubernetes in production (EKS preferred), including debugging pods, managing secrets, and configuring CNI plugins.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash.
• Extensive experience with Linux operating systems, including performance tuning and CLI troubleshooting (strace, tcpdump, netstat).
• Solid understanding of cloud networking (Subnets, NAT Gateways, Security Groups, Route53).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical background.
• Must hold valid US work authorization without requiring current or future sponsorship.

Pulled from the full job description

• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance, * Base salary based on technical proficiency and experience level
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage with low premiums
• 401(k) retirement plan with guaranteed company match
• Paid time off (PTO) policy and paid federal holidays
• Annual stipend for AWS/Kubernetes certifications and technical conferences

Equal Opportunity Statement, * 401(k)

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance