Senior DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes & GitOps)

Miratech

1d•Remote

About The Position

Miratech is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in operating Kubernetes in production environments at scale. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of managing real-world Kubernetes platforms, understanding the complexities of distributed systems, and proficiency in GitOps-based deployment workflows. This role involves building, enhancing, and supporting cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, observability systems, and production reliability practices. The engineer will collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, and operations teams to deliver robust and repeatable deployment platforms.

Requirements

Strong hands-on Kubernetes production experience.
Advanced Kubernetes knowledge, including deployments, services, ingress, config maps, secrets, RBAC, network policies, probes, HPA, and storage.
Strong GitOps experience, with Flux or Argo CD.
Strong CI/CD experience using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar platforms.
Experience with Helm and/or Kustomize.
Strong Linux systems, networking, and troubleshooting skills.
Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, including EKS, IAM, VPC, Route 53, ALB/NLB, S3, RDS, or CloudWatch.
Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform or similar tools.
Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, Go, or similar languages.
Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, Better Stack, or similar.
Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues across application, infrastructure, and networking layers.
Strong written communication skills, especially for runbooks, architecture notes, and operational documentation.

Nice To Haves

Service Mesh experience (Istio, Linkerd, Consul).
Secrets Management experience (Vault, External Secrets, Sealed Secrets).
Platform Engineering experience.
Multi-region architectures.
High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.
Microservices and Distributed Systems experience.
Incident Management and Postmortem practices.
SRE practices and SLO-based operations.

Responsibilities

Design, operate, and improve production-grade Kubernetes platforms.
Build and maintain Kubernetes workloads, manifests, Helm charts, Kustomize overlays, and deployment patterns.
Implement and support GitOps workflows using Flux, Argo CD, or similar tools.
Improve CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable, and secure application delivery.
Partner with engineering teams to troubleshoot production issues across Kubernetes, networking, compute, storage, and application layers.
Build automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
Support cloud infrastructure operations across AWS, GCP, Windows, or hybrid environments.
Manage Kubernetes networking, ingress, service mesh, DNS, TLS, secrets, and workload identity patterns.
Drive Infrastructure as Code standards using Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
Collaborate with security teams to improve container, cluster, secrets, and supply-chain security.
Mentor engineers on Kubernetes, DevOps, GitOps, and production operations best practices.