DevOps Engineer 3
The AES Group•Chicago, TX
•Onsite
About The Position
Seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and support secure, scalable cloud infrastructure with a strong focus on AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, DevOps automation, and CI/CD. The engineer will support software engineering teams and contribute to enterprise infrastructure, automation, and production environments.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure roles.
- 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes/EKS experience supporting production environments.
- 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience.
- 3+ years of practical GitHub Actions experience, including workflow development and automation.
- Strong experience with Terraform and Python or Bash.
- Demonstrated experience building, administering, monitoring, and troubleshooting production infrastructure.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with software engineering teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience managing enterprise-scale self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on Kubernetes.
- Experience with Actions Runner Controller (ARC).
- Experience with ArgoCD or Flux, Helm, Docker, ECR, and Kubernetes autoscaling.
- CKA, CKAD, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional certification is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Build, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes/EKS environments.
- Manage cluster upgrades, patching, node recycling, and maintenance.
- Configure autoscaling using Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler, HPA, and VPA.
- Develop and maintain Helm charts for application deployments.
- Manage container networking and ingress using VPC CNI, ALB, NGINX, or Traefik.
- Design, administer, and support AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Work with EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Route53, RDS, and related AWS services.
- Implement secure, scalable, and highly available cloud solutions.
- Manage Kubernetes pod permissions using AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA).
- Design and optimize GitHub Actions workflows for CI/CD and automated testing.
- Develop reusable workflows and custom GitHub Actions.
- Manage GitHub Secrets, Environments, deployment keys, and secure variables.
- Implement OIDC with AWS IAM for secure GitHub-to-AWS authentication.
- Support self-hosted or cloud-hosted GitHub Actions runners.
- Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform or AWS CDK.
- Develop automation using Python and/or Bash.
- Eliminate manual processes through reliable infrastructure automation.
- Implement and maintain GitOps deployment frameworks using ArgoCD or Flux.
- Manage Docker builds, multi-stage images, and AWS ECR.
- Support container vulnerability management and secure deployment practices.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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