DevOps Engineer IV

Position Summary:

We are seeking an exceptional DevOps Engineer IV to serve as the technical authority and strategic leader for our AWS cloud-native infrastructure. This role is pivotal in architecting implementing and optimizing our Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) platform while establishing enterprise-grade Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform and Terragrunt.

As the technical expert of the team you will drive our GitOps maturity through ArgoCD design sophisticated CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and ensure architectural excellence across all AWS services. This position leads the consolidation of AWS application environments into a centralized well-architected Organizational Unit (OU) structure focusing on automation security performance optimization and cost efficiency.

You will establish and evangelize best practices across the organization creating reusable frameworks and self-service platforms that empower development teams while maintaining security compliance and operational excellence.

Essential Job Functions What Youll Do:

Kubernetes Platform Ownership:
Design deploy and manage production-grade Amazon EKS clusters across AWS regions and accounts.
Architect EKS control plane configurations including VPC networking subnet design security groups and AWS PrivateLink integration
Establish EKS upgrade strategies ensuring zero-downtime cluster upgrades and backward compatibility
Integrate EKS with core AWS services: Application Load Balancer (ALB) Network Load Balancer (NLB) Route 53 for service discovery AWS Certificate Manager and AWS Secrets Manager

Intelligent Autoscaling:

Optimize Karpenter for dynamic right-sized node provisioning leveraging FinOps compliance to eliminate cluster waste.
Establish Kubernetes secrets management using AWS Secrets Manager and External Secrets Operator

Service Mesh:
Own the implementation of Linkerd for production traffic enforcing TLS advanced traffic routing.

GitOps Delivery Architecture:
Architect and manage ArgoCD deployments for declarative GitOps-based continuous delivery
Design ArgoCD application manifests AppProjects and multi-cluster deployment strategies
Create Helm Charts as the standard application packaging format with ArgoCD integration
Establish ArgoCD best practices: repository structure application composition progressive delivery and blue-green Deployments
Integrate ArgoCD with GitHub for automated application synchronization

CI Automation Lead:
Design and implement enterprise-grade GitHub Actions workflows for automated CI/CD pipelines
Build multi-stage pipelines incorporating code quality checks SAST (Static Application Security Testing) container image building and scanning infrastructure validation and automated deployment triggers
Integrate GitHub Actions with ArgoCD for GitOps-driven deployments implementing automated sync strategies
Implement container image security scanning using Trivy Snyk or similar tools within GitHub Actions Workflows; Create reusable GitHub Actions workflows and custom actions for standardization across teams

Full-Stack Observability:
Architect comprehensive observability solutions using DataDog for APM log aggregation distributed tracing and infrastructure monitoring
Design custom dashboards and alerting strategies for EKS clusters applications and AWS services
Establish SLI/SLO frameworks and reliability engineering practices
Migration Architect:
Lead the technical execution of AWS Account migrations focused on consolidating dispersed legacy applications into a modern centralised application environment Ous (Organisational Units).

Migration Architect:
Lead the technical execution of AWS Account migrations focused on consolidating dispersed legacy applications into a modern centralized application environment Ous (Organizational Units).

AWS Well-Architected Review:
Conduct AWS Well-Architected Reviews for all infrastructure and application architectures
Ensure adherence to the five pillars: Operational Excellence Security Reliability Performance Efficiency and Cost Optimisation
Establish architectural decision records (ADRs) and design documentation standards
Mentor teams on AWS and Kubernetes best practices

Essential Qualifications What Youll Need:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or any related courses
• 6 years AWS EKS and Kubernetes Expertise (Control plane IRSA CNI Multi-cluster management)
• 5 years GitOps ArgoCD mastery and Github Actions (CI pipeline design)
• 5 years Terraform/Terragrunt for Infra-as-code
• 3 years Karpenter Implementation and Optimization Linkerd Deployment and Configuration Datadog Dashboards and Alerting

Licenses and Certification:

• Kubernetes - Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• AWS Professional Certification - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
  

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Platform Engineering Mindset: Ability to treat infrastructure as product providing self-service tools and standardized platforms for development teams while adhering to security and compliance policies
• Advanced Scripting: Proficient in at least one programming language between GoLang Python or Shell.
• Architectural Governance: Expert knowledge in AWS Well-Architected Framework Cloud Governance and the DevOps Lifecycle focusing on containerized workloads such as EKS.
• Systems Thinking: Deep understanding of networking Linux security best practices (e.g. least-privilege IAM Kubernetes Network Policies) and high-availability design patterns.
• Executive Communication: Superior ability to communicate complex highly technical architectural and security concepts to executive-level audiences translating risk and technical debt into clear business outcomes.
• Leadership & Ownership: Self-motivated demonstrating a high sense of ownership in driving conversations across teams and business units to achieve collaborative progress and complex project completion.

THE GOOD STUFF!

We embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage our amazing team members at DemandScience to bring their authentic fun selves to work every day. We offer a culture of innovation mutual respect support and transparency. The competitive and comprehensive benefits our team members enjoy are designed to ensure you and your family members are healthy. Check this out!

• Paid time off
• Medical provided through HMO
• Life Insurance
• Peer-Appreciation Program
• Employee Referral Program
• A fast-paced innovative culture with an open and collaborative environment where you can make an impact.
• Join a great organization that cares about employees!

DemandScience is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or national origin.

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