Senior DevOps Engineer (GCP)

CommIT • Long Grove, IL

9h

About The Position

We’re looking for a Senior GCP DevOps Engineer (6+ years) with deep experience building and operating production-grade Kubernetes platforms on AWS.
You’ll lead the design, scaling, and reliability of cloud-native, Kubernetes-first infrastructure, working closely with engineering teams to enable secure, automated, and highly available deployments.

Requirements

• 6+ years as a DevOps / Cloud Engineer
• Strong Kubernetes expertise, especially EKS, Helm, ArgoCD, and Karpenter
• Deep GCP knowledge with hands-on production experience
• Advanced Terraform usage for infrastructure and EKS
• Strong CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Solid Docker and container security knowledge
• Strong troubleshooting and communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Experience operating large-scale or high-availability Kubernetes clusters
• Knowledge of GCP cost optimization and cloud security best practices
• Experience with multi-account AWS and governance
• Other platforms: GCP, Azure, OpenShift

Responsibilities

• Kubernetes (EKS):Design, build, and operate production-grade EKS clusters
• Implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD
• Manage autoscaling and capacity using Karpenter
• Own cluster upgrades, networking, security, and performance
• AWS Infrastructure:Design and manage AWS environments using Terraform
• Strong focus on EKS, IAM, VPC, ALB/NLB, ECR, and managed services
• Helm & Platform Engineering:Create and maintain Helm charts for shared and application workloads
• Build reusable Kubernetes platform components
• Containers:Build, optimize, and secure Docker images
• Enforce container security and best practices
• CI/CD:Design and maintain pipelines using GitHub Actions (and Azure DevOps where needed)
• Enable fast, safe Kubernetes deployments
• Observability:Implement Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK for monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Own SLOs, alerts, and operational visibility
• Reliability & Security:Improve availability, scalability, and security across Kubernetes and AWS
• Apply best practices for IAM, networking, and secrets management

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed