DevOps Engineer IV

Role Overview

DevOps Engineer IV at Availity (Remote, United States). You will lead the design, implementation, operations, and support of cloud-native infrastructure and container orchestration platforms, with a primary focus on Kubernetes on AWS EKS.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters (primarily AWS EKS)
• Build and maintain containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes best practices
• Define and enforce standards for containerization, deployment patterns, and cluster operations
• Build scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant platform architectures
• Provision and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt/CloudFormation)
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, automation, and operational excellence
• Partner with Cloud Architecture, Security, and Engineering to modernize infrastructure
• Enable application teams through self-service and platform capabilities
• Act as a senior technical leader: contribute to architecture decisions and mentor engineers
• Ensure alignment with security, compliance, and operational standards

Requirements

• 5–7+ years in cloud, DevOps, or platform engineering
• Hands-on production Kubernetes operations
• Strong AWS experience, including Amazon EKS
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation)
• CI/CD pipeline experience (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions)
• Observability/monitoring experience (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or similar)
• Strong scripting/automation (Python, Bash, or similar)
• Git-based workflows and version control best practices
• Troubleshooting, performance tuning, and root cause analysis
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum

Preferred

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect/DevOps Engineer) and/or Kubernetes certs (CKA/CKAD)
• Kubernetes security best practices (RBAC, network policies, secrets management)
• Service mesh experience (Istio, Linkerd)
• Multi-cluster or hybrid Kubernetes environments

Notes

• Sponsorship is not available for this position.