Description
Summary:
Seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, operate, and continuously improve cloud infrastructure and deployment for a high-scale cybersecurity product.
Highlights:
1. High degree of ownership over production infrastructure
2. Contribute to platform engineering, improving developer productivity
3. Partner with an innovative cybersecurity company
**144L \- Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS/EKS/Terraform/CI/CD) · Remote · LATAM**
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* **Location:** Anywhere in LATAM
* **Work Model:** 100% Remote
* **Engagement:** Full\-time Contractor
* **Payment:** USD
* **Project:** Identity Security / Cybersecurity Platform
* **Seniority:** Senior
* **English Level:** B2 / C1
**Get to Know Darwoft**
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At Darwoft, we build custom software solutions and partner with international companies to create high\-impact digital products.
We are a Latin American technology company with a people\-first culture, strong professional standards, and a long\-term partnership mindset. We work with distributed teams, complex technical challenges, and clients whose technology has a direct impact on their businesses and users.
**About the Project**
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We are partnering with an innovative cybersecurity company developing a modern **Identity Security and Identity Observability platform**.
The product enables enterprise security teams to monitor identity activity, identify security gaps, detect suspicious behavior, and reduce identity\-related risks across **cloud, SaaS, network, and on\-premise environments**.
Its architecture relies heavily on distributed systems, real\-time data processing, cloud\-native infrastructure, advanced analytics, and an increasingly **AI\-driven security roadmap**.
As the platform continues to scale, infrastructure reliability, automation, observability, security, and developer productivity are critical engineering priorities.
**About the Role**
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We're looking for a **Senior DevOps Engineer** to design, automate, operate, and continuously improve the cloud infrastructure and deployment platform supporting a high\-scale cybersecurity product.
You'll work primarily with **AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, and observability technologies**, partnering closely with Software Engineering, QA, Security, and IT teams.
This role goes beyond maintaining infrastructure. You'll actively contribute to **platform engineering**, helping engineers ship software faster and more reliably while improving automation, security, operational visibility, scalability, and cloud cost efficiency.
You'll have a high degree of ownership over production infrastructure and participate directly in architectural decisions, incident resolution, platform improvements, and DevOps best practices.
**What You'll Be Doing**
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* Design, build, and operate highly available and scalable cloud infrastructure primarily on **AWS**.
* Build and maintain **Infrastructure as Code using Terraform**.
* Deploy, manage, scale, and troubleshoot workloads running on **Kubernetes**, particularly **Amazon EKS**.
* Develop automation for infrastructure provisioning, environment configuration, and application deployment.
* Build and maintain reliable **CI/CD pipelines** using tools such as **GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI**.
* Improve deployment processes, release reliability, and developer experience across engineering teams.
* Manage containerized applications using **Docker and Kubernetes**.
* Design and improve observability across infrastructure and applications.
* Implement monitoring, dashboards, alerts, and centralized logging using technologies such as:
+ Prometheus
+ Grafana
+ AWS CloudWatch
+ OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
+ ELK
* Participate in production incident response, troubleshooting, mitigation, and **root cause analysis**.
* Identify recurring operational issues and automate their resolution.
* Implement AWS and Kubernetes security best practices.
* Collaborate with Security teams to strengthen infrastructure security and support compliance initiatives.
* Improve platform resilience, high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery capabilities.
* Optimize AWS resource utilization and contribute to **cloud cost optimization and FinOps initiatives**.
* Automate operating system and infrastructure configuration using **Ansible or similar tools**.
* Develop operational tooling and automation using **Python and Bash**.
* Collaborate with Engineering teams on platform architecture and deployment strategies.
* Continuously evaluate new DevOps, cloud, Kubernetes, observability, and platform engineering technologies.
**What You Bring**
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* **5–8\+ years of experience** working in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or similar roles.
* Strong hands\-on production experience with **AWS**.
* Strong experience managing **Kubernetes clusters**, ideally **Amazon EKS**.
* Advanced experience with **Terraform** and Infrastructure as Code.
* Strong experience with **Docker and containerized environments**.
* Hands\-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with:
+ GitHub Actions
+ Jenkins
+ GitLab CI
+ or similar platforms
* Strong **Linux administration** skills.
* Experience with configuration management tools such as **Ansible**.
* Good scripting and automation capabilities with:
+ Python
+ Bash
* Experience implementing observability using technologies such as:
+ Prometheus
+ Grafana
+ CloudWatch
+ OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
+ ELK
* Strong understanding of networking concepts including:
+ VPCs
+ Subnets
+ Load Balancers
+ DNS
+ VPNs
+ Firewalls
+ Routing
+ Security Groups
* Experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems and production environments.
* Solid understanding of cloud security and infrastructure security best practices.
* Experience supporting highly available, production\-grade cloud environments.
* Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with engineering, security, QA, and business stakeholders.
* High degree of autonomy, ownership, and analytical problem\-solving ability.
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
**Core Technology Stack**
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You'll work with technologies including:
* **AWS**
* **Kubernetes / EKS**
* **Docker**
* **Terraform**
* **Ansible**
* **GitHub Actions**
* **Jenkins**
* **Linux**
* **Python**
* **Bash**
* **Prometheus**
* **Grafana**
* **CloudWatch**
* **OpenSearch / Elasticsearch**
**Nice to Have**
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* Experience with **HashiCorp Nomad**.
* Experience with **HashiCorp Consul**.
* Broader experience with the HashiCorp ecosystem.
* Experience operating **Kafka** in production.
* Experience supporting data infrastructure based on:
+ ClickHouse
+ Elasticsearch
+ MongoDB
+ Redis
* Experience with distributed systems and high\-volume data platforms.
* Previous experience in **cybersecurity, identity security, or security SaaS platforms**.
* Experience working with cloud security controls and compliance frameworks.
* Experience with **FinOps and cloud cost optimization**.
* Experience designing internal developer platforms or platform engineering capabilities.
* Exposure to infrastructure supporting **AI/ML or LLM\-based applications**.
**What Success Looks Like**
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Success in this role means:
* Increasing infrastructure reliability and availability.
* Reducing deployment friction and improving engineering velocity.
* Increasing infrastructure automation and reducing manual operational work.
* Improving observability and reducing mean time to detection and resolution.
* Operating Kubernetes workloads reliably at scale.
* Strengthening security throughout cloud infrastructure and deployment processes.
* Improving AWS cost efficiency without compromising reliability.
* Contributing reusable platform capabilities that allow engineering teams to move faster.
* Continuously improving production readiness as the platform scales.
**What Darwoft Offers**
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* Contractor agreement with payment in USD
* 100% remote work
* Argentina's public holidays
* English classes
* Referral program
* Access to learning platforms
**Explore this and other opportunities at:**
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www.darwoft.com/careers