Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience managing or leading platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, or SRE teams, including mentoring engineers and delivering technical initiatives.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience managing production Kubernetes clusters, including operations, troubleshooting, upgrades, and workload optimization.
- Strong proficiency with Helm charts for application deployment and configuration management.
- Extensive experience with Docker and Docker Compose, including multi-container architectures, image optimization, and secure container design.
- Advanced Linux administration skills across multiple distributions, including package management, networking, storage, permissions, and system performance.
- Strong troubleshooting skills for network, DNS, API, and service connectivity issues in distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with log management, monitoring, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.
- Advanced scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar languages for automation, tooling, and system integrations.
- Proven experience with system hardening, security best practices, and vulnerability remediation across cloud infrastructure and containerized environments.
- Proficiency with AWS services and tools, including EKS, EC2, IAM, CloudWatch, Security Groups, and VPC networking.
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security checks, and reliable deployment and rollback processes.
- Proficiency with Terraform, including reusable modules, state management, and integration into infrastructure deployment workflows.
- Strong communication and planning skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs, delegate effectively, and align engineering work with business priorities.
What You Will Bring
You combine technical depth with thoughtful people leadership. You make security part of everyday engineering, use automation to reduce operational overhead, and help engineers grow through clear expectations and useful feedback. You remain calm during incidents and build productive relationships across development, security, and operations.
Eligibility Requirement
Employment in this position is limited to U.S. Persons as defined by federal regulations. Only U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents, asylees, and refugees are eligible.
Disclaimer: The above description is meant to illustrate the general nature of work and level of effort being performed by individuals assigned to this position or job description. This is not restricted as a complete list of all skills, responsibilities, duties, and/or assignments required. Individuals may be required to perform duties outside of their position, job description or responsibilities as needed.
Accessibility: If you need an accommodation as part of the employment process please contact: careers@axleinfo.com
This role has a market-competitive salary with an anticipated base compensation range listed below. Actual salaries will vary depending on a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location.
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