Date Posted: 09/21/2026
Hiring Organization: Rose International
Position Number: 507845
Industry: Manufacturing
Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer AWS Kubernetes GitHub Actions
Job Location: Chicago, IL, USA, 60661
Work Model: Hybrid
Work Model Details: Onsite 3 days/week
Shift: M-F, 8am - 5pm
Employment Type: Temporary
FT/PT: Full-Time
Estimated Duration (In months): 13
Min Hourly Rate($): 58.00
Max Hourly Rate($): 68.00
Must Have Skills/Attributes: Automation, AWS, CICD, DevOps, Kubernetes, Terraform
Experience Desired: DevOps experience (5+ yrs); CI/CD expertise - writing, testing, and modularizing complex GitHub Actions workflows (3+ yrs); AWS core - architecture focused workflows across AWS services (5+ yrs); Kubernetes core - running production-grade workloads on Amazon EKS (3+ yrs); Automation - experience with Terraform and either Python or Bash scripting (5+ yrs)
Required Minimum Education: High School Diploma or equivalent
Preferred Certifications/Licenses: CKA, CKAD, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
**C2C is not available**
Job Description
***Position can be located in Chicago, IL, OR Irving, TX***
Education Requirements:
- High School diploma or equivalent
Preferred Certifications:
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- CKAD
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
Required Skills for the Senior DevOps Engineer:
- DevOps Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in dedicated DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or cloud infrastructure roles
- CI/CD Expertise: 3+ years of heavy practical experience writing, testing, and modularizing complex GitHub Actions workflows
- AWS Core: 5+ years of hands-on expertise architecture-focused workflows across major AWS services
- Kubernetes Core: 3+ years of deep technical experience specifically running production-grade workloads on Amazon EKS, including advanced troubleshooting
- Automation: Expert proficiency with Terraform and at least one scripting language (Python or Bash)
Preferred Skills:
- Runner Administration: Experience managing scaling policies for enterprise-scale GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on Kubernetes (e.g., using Actions Runner Controller - ARC)
Senior DevOps Engineer Overview:
In this role, you will lead our containerization strategy, build enterprise-grade automation workflows utilizing GitHub Actions, and manage our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) lifecycle to ensure high availability, optimal performance, and cost efficiency.
Responsibilities:
CI/CD & GitHub Actions Automation
- Workflow Architecture: Design, build, and optimize matrixed, self-hosted, or cloud-hosted GitHub Actionsworkflows for continuous integration and automated testing
- Reusable Infrastructure: Build and maintain version-controlled custom GitHub Actions and reusable workflow templates to standardize pipelines across multiple engineering teams
- Secret Management: Manage secure environment variables, contexts, and deployment keys using GitHub Secrets, Environments, and integrations with AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault
- Secure Delivery: Implement OpenID Connect (OIDC) to authenticate GitHub Actions runners natively with AWS IAM, eliminating long-lived credentials
Kubernetes & Container Orchestration
- Cluster Management: Design, deploy, and maintain multi-cluster production
AWS EKS and Kubernetes environments
- Upgrades & Maintenance: Execute seamless, zero-downtime cluster upgrades, patch releases, and routine maintenance node recycling
- Autoscaling & Cost Optimization: Configure and tune cluster autoscaling using tools like Karpenter or Cluster Autoscaler, alongside horizontal/vertical pod autoscaling (HPA/VPA)
- Package Management: Build, maintain, and version control internal Helm charts for streamlined application delivery
AWS Infrastructure & Automation
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provision and manage 100% of cloud resources using Terraform or AWS CDK to maintain strict environment consistency
- Cloud Architecture: Administer core AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Route53, and RDS platforms
- Scripting & Tooling: Write clean, maintainable automation scripts using Python and Bash to eliminate manual interventions
GitOps & Release Management
- GitOps Adoption: Implement and maintain GitOps-driven deployment frameworks utilizing tools like ArgoCD or Flux to sync EKS state with source repositories
- Container Registry: Oversee Docker container builds, multi-stage layering, and registry vulnerability management via AWS ECR, triggered natively via GitHub Actions runner hooks
Networking, Security, & DevSecOps
- Cloud Networking: Manage sophisticated container networking interfaces (VPC CNI) and advanced ingress routing controllers (ALB, NGINX, or Traefik)
- Access Control: Enforce security guardrails utilizing AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) to grant fine-grained pod permissions - **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**
- **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**
Benefits:
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