> Markdown version of [/jobs/ext/3970214-senior-devops-engineer-aws-kubernetes-platform-reliability](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/3970214-senior-devops-engineer-aws-kubernetes-platform-reliability). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior DevOps Engineer: AWS, Kubernetes & Platform Reliability - **Company:** Public Private Ventures - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $83,200.0 - $93,600.0 - **Contract:** Contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Databases, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Github, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Octopus Deploy, PCI Data Security Standards, Role-Based Access Control, Ansible, Prometheus, Runbook, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Datadog, Circleci, Data Logging, Scripting, Google Cloud, Load Balancing, Okta, System Availability, Grafana, Multi-Cloud, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Relational Database Service, Containerization, Kubernetes, Hashicorp, Cloud Migration, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Terraform, OpenSearch, Jenkins - **Published:** October 27, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/b6b43d48-ef56-497a-a4d9-9362d8ad6d9a ## About the Role * 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. ## Description 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.