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Senior DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes & Observability

Saxon Global
9 days ago
On-site
United States
$90 - $90 USD hourly

Senior DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes & Observability

Client: JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Location: Columbus, OH / Tampa, FL (Columbus, OH is highly preferred)

Pay Rate: $85-90/hr on W2

Interview: Virtual

Position Overview

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to help build and scale cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and enterprise observability solutions.

This role will be instrumental in enhancing application visibility, improving system health monitoring, automating infrastructure deployments, and driving platform reliability across large-scale environments.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD automation, cloud technologies, and observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, and Splunk.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and manage highly available Kubernetes environments across multiple platforms.
  • Build and enhance observability solutions to improve application performance monitoring, telemetry collection, and system health visibility.
  • Develop dashboards, alerting frameworks, and predictive monitoring capabilities using modern observability tools.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and recovery processes using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
  • Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to design integrations and support new platform initiatives.
  • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD, and Flux.
  • Containerize applications using Docker and implement container security and operational best practices.
  • Monitor platform availability, performance, capacity, and reliability while driving proactive improvements.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues involving Kubernetes clusters, networking, storage, application performance, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Create automation solutions and operational tools using Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
  • Promote DevOps best practices, infrastructure automation, monitoring standards, and operational excellence across teams.

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration and container orchestration.
  • Expertise with Docker and containerized application deployment.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as:
    • Terraform
    • Helm
    • Kustomize
    • CloudFormation
  • Strong experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using:
    • Jenkins
    • GitLab
    • ArgoCD
    • Flux
    • Similar tools
  • Deep understanding of observability and monitoring platforms, including:
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • OpenTelemetry
    • Dynatrace
    • Splunk
    • Grafana Tempo
  • Experience working with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Strong networking knowledge, including:
    • DNS
    • Load balancing
    • Ingress controllers
    • Service mesh technologies
    • Network policies
  • Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
  • Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
  • Experience with service mesh technologies such as:
    • Istio
    • Linkerd
    • Consul
  • Knowledge of SRE practices, including:
    • SLIs
    • SLOs
    • Error budgets
    • Incident management
  • Experience with logging and analytics platforms such as:
    • ELK
    • Loki
    • Splunk
  • Exposure to container security and compliance tools.
  • Experience supporting large-scale enterprise Kubernetes environments.
  • Financial services or highly regulated industry experience is a plus.

Preferred Skills / Keywords

Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana Tempo, Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD, Flux, AWS, Azure, GCP, Python, Go, Bash, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, CI/CD, GitOps, Observability

Target Profile

The ideal candidate will be a Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Kubernetes Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, or SRE professional with strong hands-on experience in Kubernetes and enterprise observability platforms.

Thankyou!