Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes)

TL;DR

Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes): Leading the design and management of highly available, scalable Kubernetes infrastructure with an accent on IaC using Terraform and Terragrunt. Focus on building robust CI/CD pipelines, driving infrastructure automation, and designing monitoring solutions for cloud-native applications.

Location: Remote (Brazil)

Company

Encora is a digital engineering and modernization partner for leading enterprises and digital native companies.

What you will do

• Lead the design and management of highly available, scalable Kubernetes infrastructure using Amazon EKS.
• Implement and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using Harness for application delivery.
• Drive infrastructure automation and environment consistency across development, staging, and production.
• Design and implement monitoring and observability solutions using New Relic.
• Support production systems through incident management and proactive reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with engineering and security teams to define best practices for deployment, security, and scalability.
• Mentor and guide junior DevOps team members in modern infrastructure practices.

Requirements

• Experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering role supporting cloud-native applications.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes (EKS), including Helm, networking, and security.
• Deep proficiency in Terraform and Terragrunt for AWS infrastructure provisioning.
• Proven expertise building pipelines with Harness, Git, and associated CI/CD tooling.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python or Golang.
• Solid understanding of AWS services: EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, VPC, Route53, CloudWatch.
• Proficient with Linux systems, including performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Deep knowledge of networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS, HTTP/S, Load Balancing.
• Experience with Ansible for configuration and provisioning.
• Working knowledge of MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Strong experience in monitoring, logging, and alerting, particularly using New Relic.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other pub/sub systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work from home flexibility.
• Hiring based solely on skills and qualifications, without discrimination.
• Opportunity to interface with software developers, product managers, test engineers, and administrators.
• Focus on reliability and security.