DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Location:  Boston, MA - Hybrid (3 days in office)
Duration: 18 months 

Job Description/ Responsibilities:

• 4+ years managing Kubernetes clusters in production (EKS preferred)
• Hands-on experience with GitOps tooling — Flux CD and/or Argo CD
• Proficiency writing Terraform modules and Helm charts
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent)
• Strong AWS fundamentals — VPC, IAM, EC2, MSK, EKS node groups
• Working knowledge of observability platforms (Datadog, Dynatrace, or similar)
• Comfort operating in Agile/sprint-based engineering teams
   

Required Skills:

• k8s admin
• AWS fundamentals
• Splunk / datadog

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Linkerd or other service mesh technologies
• Familiarity with Jsonnet or CUE for configuration management
• Hands-on FinOps or cluster cost optimisation experience (Kubecost, ScaleOps)
• Experience migrating ingress controllers at scale
• Amazon MSK administration and Kafka operations knowledge
• Okta or SSO/IdP integration experience
• Blue-green or canary deployment patterns for Kubernetes upgrades
• Familiarity with application architecture (Java and or Python)

 

At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's starting pay is: $45.00/hr.