Sr. DevOps Engineer
PAR Technology
•$155,000 - $170,000•Remote
About The Position
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and support our AWS cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based application platform. This role will focus on reliability, scalability, security, observability, and deployment automation across production environments.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or a similar role.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Production experience with Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using OpenTofu, Terraform, or similar tools.
- Experience with Argo CD, Helm, and GitOps-based deployment workflows.
- Strong scripting or development experience with Python.
- Experience supporting Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ in production environments.
- Experience with Datadog or similar observability platforms.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, DNS, TLS, ingress, and load balancing.
- Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation and supporting production incident response.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
Nice To Haves
- AWS, Amazon EKS, Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis, Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ, AWS Load Balancers, IAM, VPC networking.
- OpenTofu, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Helm, containers, ingress, services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, autoscaling.
- Argo CD, GitOps, CI/CD, release automation, Python, Bash or shell scripting, Datadog, metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, alerting.
- Experience supporting high-availability SaaS or customer-facing platforms.
- Experience with Kubernetes autoscaling, ingress controllers, cluster upgrades, and resource optimization.
- Experience with backup, restore, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
- Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected principles and cloud security best practices.
- Experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD tools.
- Experience supporting message broker platforms such as RabbitMQ or Amazon MQ.
- AWS or Kubernetes certifications are a plus.
- Strong ownership mindset, operational discipline, and a passion for automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, with a willingness to mentor others.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using OpenTofu.
- Operate Kubernetes workloads on Amazon EKS.
- Manage GitOps deployments using Argo CD and Helm.
- Develop automation and operational tooling using Python and scripting languages.
- Support AWS services including Amazon EKS, Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis, Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ, load balancers, IAM, VPC networking, DNS, and security groups.
- Implement monitoring, dashboards, alerts, logs, metrics, and tracing using Datadog.
- Troubleshoot production issues and support incident response and root cause analysis.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems, respond to incidents, and assist with after-hours maintenance or escalations as needed.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment reliability.
- Partner with engineering and security teams to improve infrastructure standards, operational readiness, and cloud security.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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