Senior DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes

Role Overview

FICO is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes) to help deliver secure cloud infrastructure and platforms for enterprise customers. You will work on high-volume, low-latency systems that support transactional processing, decisioning, and analytics execution.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product managers to translate platform priorities into scalable infrastructure strategies.
• Architect and own CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD, Tekton, or similar tools; ensure high availability across environments.
• Design and implement observability for Kubernetes applications, including monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to optimize deployments, performance, and scalability on Kubernetes.
• Drive continuous improvement of engineering practices and establish standards for operational excellence.
• Architect and automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using AWS services.
• Own security and compliance posture across cloud infrastructure by defining and enforcing policies organization-wide.

Requirements

• Extensive experience architecting and operating data-intensive, containerized applications on Kubernetes at scale, including production debugging and troubleshooting.
• Strong AWS proficiency, including EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, Route 53, and ECR.
• Deep observability expertise with Prometheus and Grafana, plus strong security best practices for cloud and Kubernetes.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Bash, GitHub Workflow).
• Infrastructure as Code experience (e.g., Terraform, Crossplane, AWS ACK).
• Expertise with Helm and ArgoCD, designing and managing complex CD pipelines across multi-environment setups.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with additional CI/CD and GitOps tooling similar to ArgoCD/Tekton.
• Advanced Kubernetes operations for reliability and performance optimization.