Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes & Terraform

Our Client an IT Services and Consultant company is looking for a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer AWS Kubernetes & Terraform for their Lowell MA/Troy MI/ Hybrid location.

Responsibilities:

• Design and manage infrastructure using AWS Kubernetes and Terraform with a focus on Terraform module design remote state management and policy-as-code.
• Implement GitOps practices using tools like Flux or Argo CD for declarative version-controlled environment management and drift detection.
• Take ownership of Kubernetes as a Service (KaaS) platforms including multi-cluster lifecycle management version upgrades and advanced autoscaling strategies.
• Troubleshoot complex traffic flows and optimize cloud networking including CNI configurations ingress controllers and load balancing.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient and reliable deployments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Ansible Puppet or Chef.
• Write and maintain infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-code for all environments using Terraform.
• Monitor troubleshoot and optimize infrastructure performance availability and cost.
• Integrate and manage third-party tools plug-ins and internal scripts as needed.
• Create and maintain technical documentation including runbooks and architecture diagrams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to improving incident response processes.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure infrastructure meets application and business needs.

• Bachelors degree in computer engineering / Software Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience
• 7 years of experience working as DevOps SRE PE or infrastructure engineering experience.
• 5 years of hands-on experience with cloud platforms especially AWS (GCP or Azure a plus).
• Advanced Linux systems expertise including deep knowledge of systemd cgroups namespaces OS tuning and production hardening.
• Deep Kubernetes and cloud networking knowledge beyond fundamentals (e.g. CNI plugins Service Mesh and advanced ingress patterns).
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads (EKS / Docker).
• Expertise in Terraform and infrastructure automation practices.
• Proficiency in scripting with Python and Bash.
• Experience with tools like Git Jenkins and artifact repositories.
• Familiarity with networking fundamentals such as DNS DHCP VPN and LDAP.
• Experience with monitoring and logging systems such as DataDog Prometheus Grafana ELK or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking VPCs security groups and IAM policies.
• Comfortable working with Agile teams and tools like JIRA and Confluence
• Nice to have
• Experience with Helm and managing Kubernetes via Helm charts.
• Exposure to hybrid environments (cloud on-prem).
• Familiarity with secrets management tools (e.g. HashiCorp Vault AWS Secrets Manager).
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading DevOps initiatives.

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities