# Senior Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps

**Company:** [VGS](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vgs)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $80k – $85k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Kubernetes, Amazon Eks, Docker, GitOps, Argo Cd, Flux, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Python, Go, Bash, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
**Posted:** 2026-07-09

> Own and scale AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps automation, observability, and cloud security for high-throughput payment systems. The role requires 5+ years of DevOps or infrastructure experience plus strong Kubernetes, automation, and SRE expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize highly available AWS infrastructure managed through infrastructure as code.
- Own, modernize, and scale CI/CD pipelines and build self-service developer platforms and standardized golden paths.
- Implement self-healing infrastructure, GitOps workflows, automated deployment scripts, and reproducible environment templates.
- Configure and maintain observability tooling, including telemetry and monitoring for proactive bottleneck detection.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead blameless postmortems to improve system resilience.
- Embed cloud security, compliance controls, API gateways, and network isolation into deployment workflows as code.
- Partner with product and engineering teams on platform adoption and mentor engineers on SRE, DevOps, and cloud-native practices.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles.
- Experience owning complex, large-scale distributed systems in mission-critical environments.
- Advanced Kubernetes, including Amazon EKS, Docker, and GitOps deployment workflows.
- Experience with Argo CD, Flux, and GitHub Actions.
- Proven ability to build, optimize, and secure automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong coding or scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash.
- Hands-on experience implementing telemetry and monitoring stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools.
- Drive to eliminate manual work and automate repetitive operational tasks.

## Nice to Have
- Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Experience managing distributed data streaming platforms such as Kafka or Amazon MSK.
- Experience operating high-concurrency database platforms under heavy load.
- Experience integrating AI developer tools, agentic workflows, or automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of regulated security frameworks such as PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or ISO 27001.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: $80,000–$85,000.

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