Delivery Engineer - Cloud & Automation
Bluestaq · Colorado Springs, CO · 1 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$95k–$140k/yrFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Deploy and maintain UDL platform infrastructure on AWS EKS using Terraform and Terragrunt
- Manage application rollouts via Argo CD / GitOps workflows; troubleshoot failed deployments, upgrades, and sync issues
- Monitor production service health using Grafana dashboards, logs, and distributed traces; drive incidents to root cause
- Perform live remediation in Kubernetes — pod restarts, rolling updates, scaling, node draining, debugging stuck workloads
- Improve observability coverage, alert quality, and runbooks based on what you learn from real incidents
- Automate repetitive operational toil using Python, Bash, or PowerShell
- Partner with product, security, and engineering teams to ship changes safely into regulated environments
- Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge across the platform team
- Participate in an on-call rotation for production support
Qualifications & Skills
- 3–6 years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure roles
- Production experience operating Kubernetes (EKS preferred) — deployments, services, ingress, troubleshooting failed pods/rollouts
- Hands-on experience with Terraform (Terragrunt a plus) provisioning AWS infrastructure
- Strong AWS fundamentals (IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS, S3, CloudWatch)
- Comfort working in Linux environments and writing automation in Python, Bash, or PowerShell
- Experience with observability tooling — Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent log/metrics/trace platforms
- Strong problem-solving skills and clear written/verbal communication, especially during incidents
- Bachelor's degree plus 4+ years experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
Preferred Experience
- Argo CD or other GitOps tooling at scale
- Helm and/or Kustomize for Kubernetes manifest management
- Kafka / Amazon MSK operations
- Service mesh experience (Istio, Linkerd)
- Incident response leadership and postmortem authorship
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or similar)
- Experience operating in regulated, security-conscious environments (FedRAMP, IL4/5, DoD)