DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Roswell, GA - Flexible hybrid

Employment Type: Permanent / Direct Hire.

Compensation: $120k–$130k (depending on experience).

No sponsorship will be offered for this role now or in the future

This Senior DevOps Engineer role owns the reliability, automation, and day-to-day operability of a Kubernetes-based platform. Success requires deep, hands-on cluster administration and troubleshooting, plus the ability to improve CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code practices with minimal direction. You will assess what’s in place, drive best-practice improvements, and establish clear standards that enable engineering teams to deliver safely and consistently.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the Kubernetes platform by assessing the current cluster architecture, identifying gaps, and driving remediation through to stable, supportable outcomes.
• Lead cluster-level troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across networking, storage, scheduling, resource constraints, and workload failures; implement preventative fixes to reduce repeat incidents.
• Build, maintain, and improve automated CI/CD pipelines in GitHub to standardize build, test, and deployment workflows and shorten release cycles.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage platform and environment configurations in a repeatable, version-controlled way.
• Establish and enforce DevOps standards and best practices, including pipeline conventions, deployment patterns, and operational guardrails; provide clear technical direction when tradeoffs arise.
• Strengthen Git-based delivery practices by improving how configuration and deployment changes are reviewed, promoted, and audited across environments.
• Develop runbooks and operational documentation that make the platform easier to support, troubleshoot, and evolve over time.
• Partner with engineering teams to remove friction in build and deployment processes, resolve pipeline and platform issues, and improve delivery reliability.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, or a similar role.
• Deep hands-on administration of Kubernetes environments, including cluster-level troubleshooting/debugging, architecture understanding, and root-cause analysis.
• Strong CI/CD experience, including building and maintaining automated build/test/deploy pipelines using GitHub (e.g., GitHub Actions/Workflows).
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform, Helm, or Ansible).

Preferred Skills:

• Experience operating Red Hat OpenShift clusters in production.
• Hands-on AWS/EKS experience, including planning or supporting a cloud migration to AWS.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes platforms hosted on IBM Cloud.
• Experience implementing GitOps workflows with ArgoCD.
• Experience with Flux or comparable GitOps tooling for declarative delivery.
• Experience using Kustomize to manage environment overlays and configuration.
• Experience packaging and deploying applications using Helm charts.
• Experience leading or supporting Kubernetes/cloud migration efforts, including cutover planning and risk mitigation.
• Experience working in healthcare, financial services, or other regulated environments with strong audit and change-control expectations.
• Strong GitOps experience managing declarative infrastructure and application deployments end-to-end.
• Experience supporting Maven-based build and dependency management workflows.
• Ability to develop automation/tooling in Python to reduce manual operational effort and improve platform reliability.