DevOps Engineer V

Role Overview

As a DevOps Engineer V at Availity, you will lead the design, implementation, operation, and ongoing support of cloud-native infrastructure and container orchestration platforms. The primary focus is Kubernetes on AWS EKS, with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, automation, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Kubernetes & Platform Engineering
  • 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
  • Architect highly available, fault-tolerant platform solutions
• Infrastructure & Automation
  • Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform/CloudFormation)
• CI/CD & Platform Enablement
  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
  • Enable application teams through self-service and platform capabilities
• Observability & Operational Excellence
  • Improve monitoring/observability practices to support performance and incident response
• Leadership & Collaboration
  • Partner with Cloud Architecture, Security, and Engineering teams to modernize infrastructure
  • Serve as a senior technical leader: contribute to architecture decisions and mentor engineers
  • Ensure alignment with security, compliance, and operational standards

Requirements

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

Nice to Have / Preferred

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

Additional Notes

• Remote (US) role; no sponsorship is available.