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Sagent

Senior DevOps Engineer

Sagent

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer managing cloud resources for large-scale infrastructure. Supporting development teams in a microservices environment to streamline deployments and optimize performance.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AirflowAzureBigQueryCloudDNSGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKafkaKubernetesMatillionMicroservicesPostgresPrometheusPythonRedisSparkSQLTerraformVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Operate and improve multi-region GKE clusters hosting hundreds of microservices across multiple environments from development through production
  • Manage the Kubernetes platform layer: Istio service mesh, cert-manager, external-dns, RBAC, HPA/KEDA autoscaling, HashiCorp Vault secret injection, and Helm-based deployments
  • Develop and maintain Terraform modules across multiple IaC repositories covering GKE, networking (Shared VPC, Cloud NAT, Private Service Connect), Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Dataproc, Cloud Composer, Vault, and web hosting
  • Maintain and extend Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines using shared Terraform templates with multi-environment deployment workflows
  • Support Confluent Kafka infrastructure including Connect workers with JDBC source connectors, consumer group health monitoring, and Kafka-lag-based autoscaling with KEDA
  • Manage Redis Enterprise clusters on Kubernetes with operator-managed lifecycle and replication
  • Operate the observability stack: Grafana Cloud (Alloy, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope via Private Service Connect), kube-prometheus-stack, Google Managed Prometheus, OpenTelemetry Operator/Collector, Beyla, and Kubecost
  • Harden cluster security posture: NetworkPolicies, Pod Security Standards, admission policy enforcement, CrowdStrike Falcon, Lacework, kube-bench, and cert-manager with Let’s Encrypt ACME
  • Support data infrastructure including Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL), Dataproc (Spark), Cloud Composer (Airflow), Matillion CDC pipelines, Snowflake, and BigQuery
  • Manage DNS across multiple providers (Azure DNS, Cloudflare, GCP Cloud DNS) via external-dns, and support Azure APIM and Cloudflare CDN/WAF
  • Partner directly with application development teams to troubleshoot deployment failures, tune resource limits and autoscaling, and resolve Kafka consumer lag and connectivity issues
  • Contribute to the Internal Developer Portal (Backstage) and internal CLI tooling that enables self-service for product engineers.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years of cloud or infrastructure engineering experience, including 3+ years of hands-on GCP experience
  • Strong production experience with GKE, VPC networking, IAM, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, and Artifact Registry
  • Advanced Terraform experience, including reusable module design, state management, and multi-environment patterns
  • Production Kubernetes expertise: Helm chart development and management, RBAC, resource tuning, and troubleshooting workloads at scale
  • Hands-on experience with Istio service mesh: sidecar injection, mTLS, VirtualServices, AuthorizationPolicies, and traffic management
  • Understanding of CNI fundamentals (Cilium/Dataplane V2), east-west traffic flows, and network segmentation
  • Experience with CI/CD pipeline development (Azure DevOps YAML pipelines or equivalent) and trunk-based development workflows
  • Hands-on experience with secrets management, including HashiCorp Vault (Kubernetes auth, agent injection) and GCP Secret Manager
  • Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python, or Go) with the ability to write production-quality automation and tooling
  • Strong security mindset with experience implementing least-privilege IAM, certificate management, and policy-driven controls
  • Clear and effective communicator able to work across infrastructure and application development teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • As a Sagent Associate, you will be eligible to participate in our benefit programs beginning on Day #1! We offer a comprehensive package including Remote/Hybrid workplace options
  • Health Benefits
  • Unlimited Flexible Time Off
  • Family Planning Services
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Paid Family Leave
  • 401(k) Matching
  • Pet Insurance
  • In-person and Virtual Social Experiences
  • Career Pathing
  • Focus Time Fridays and much, much more!

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Hard Skills & Tools
GKETerraformKubernetesIstioCloud SQLCloud StorageConfluent KafkaRedis EnterpriseGrafanaCI/CD
Soft Skills
communicationtroubleshootingresource tuningsecurity mindset