Senior DevOps Engineer: AWS, Kubernetes & Platform Reliability

Nimara Ventures places senior AI, DevOps and product engineers with US companies. We’re looking for a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer to build and run secure, scalable cloud platforms on AWS for client engagements. You’ll own infrastructure from networking to CI/CD to observability, work directly with engineering leadership, and set reliability standards that teams can follow.

What You’ll Do

• Design and manage AWS infrastructure: VPC, compute, load balancing, storage and databases
• Lead cloud migrations and platform build-outs, from architecture and tool selection to cutover
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, Jenkins or Argo CD) and automate image builds with Packer
• Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform and Terragrunt, and configuration with Ansible/AWX
• Run containerized workloads on Kubernetes, with policy and access controls such as Kyverno and RBAC
• Define SLOs, alerting thresholds, dashboards and escalation policies, and improve observability (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, OpenSearch)
• Act as incident commander for production issues, run post-incident reviews, and maintain runbooks and on-call processes
• Harden security and compliance: IAM, KMS, WAF, secrets management (HashiCorp Vault), SSO/SAML, and audit remediation such as PCI DSS
• Plan disaster recovery and backups, and reduce cloud spend through right-sizing and cost monitoring
• Mentor engineers and report on reliability and cost to leadership.

• 6+ years in DevOps, SRE or cloud infrastructure
• Deep AWS experience (VPC, EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront or similar)
• Production Kubernetes experience
• Strong Terraform; experience with Ansible or similar configuration management
• Hands-on CI/CD experience (CircleCI, Jenkins, Argo CD or GitHub Actions)
• Experience with monitoring and logging platforms (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK/OpenSearch)
• Scripting in Python and Bash
• Experience handling production incidents and writing runbooks
• Strong communication, and comfort working with engineering leadership

Preferred

• AWS Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator or HashiCorp Terraform certification
• Compliance experience (PCI DSS, SOC 2)
• HashiCorp Vault, Okta SSO/SAML, AWS WAF
• Terragrunt, Packer, Kyverno
• Cost optimization (AWS Cost Explorer, tagging, right-sizing)
• Multi-cloud exposure (Google Cloud Platform)
• Experience leading or mentoring DevOps teams

Work Authorization: Must be legally authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.