Who We Are
Magnit is the future of work. Serving hundreds of the world's most recognizable brands for the past 30+ years, Magnit offers the industry's first holistic platform for the modern workforce. Magnit's integrated workforce management (IWM) platform supported by data, software, intelligence, and best-in-class services team is key to our clients success. It can adapt quickly to regional or industry economic shifts, and provides the speed, scale, flexibility, transparency, and expertise required to meet an organization's contingent workforce management, talent strategy and broader organization goals. At Magnit, you'll work with passionate colleagues who collaborate and deliver meaningful results that positively transform the largest companies around the globe.
We are looking for a Mid-Level DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on experience in
AWS,
Kubernetes (EKS),
GitLab CI/CD, and
Infrastructure as Code using OpenTofu (Terraform-compatible). You will help build, automate, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines, enabling reliable delivery across environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and manage AWS infrastructure using OpenTofu (Terraform-compatible), following reusable module practices and environment-based deployments.
- Design, implement, and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for microservices, IaC workflows, and deployment automation.
- Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot Amazon EKS clusters, including:
- Node groups (managed/self-managed), cluster upgrades, add-ons, scaling, and cluster security best practices.
- Implement GitOps and deployment strategies for Kubernetes using tools like ArgoCD / Helm / Kustomize (where applicable).
- Work with container tooling: Docker, image build optimization, and registry workflows (ECR).
- Implement observability: logging, monitoring, and alerting using CloudWatch, and optionally tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, OpenSearch/ELK, Datadog/New Relic.
- Manage AWS networking and security: VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, NAT/IGW, Direct Connect, Security Groups, NACLs, IAM, KMS, and secrets management (Secrets Manager / SSM Parameter Store).
- Automate operational tasks using Bash/Python, improve reliability through runbooks, self-healing automation, and incident response best practices.
- Support production operations, troubleshooting, RCA/postmortems, and continuous improvements in deployment reliability and platform performance.
- Drive cost optimization and scaling strategies across AWS and Kubernetes (right-sizing, autoscaling, cluster/node optimization).
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 47 years of experience as a DevOps / Cloud / Platform Engineer.
- Strong hands-on expertise with AWS, including services like:
- EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, ELB/ALB/NLB, Route 53
- EKS, ECR, RDS, SNS/SQS, KMS, Secrets Manager, SSM, API Gateway
- Strong hands-on experience with Amazon EKS (deployments, troubleshooting, cluster operations).
- Strong experience with GitLab CI/CD:
- Multi-stage pipelines, artifacts, caching, runners, environments, variables, templates/includes, approvals, and manual jobs.
- Strong experience with OpenTofu (or Terraform) and IaC practices: Pulumi is preferred
- State management, remote state, workspaces/environments, modules, and DRY patterns.
- Solid understanding of Linux, networking basics (DNS, TLS, routing), and debugging distributed systems.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes workload concepts:
- Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, HPA, RBAC.
- Knowledge of security best practices and least-privilege IAM.
Good To Have (Preferred)
- ArgoCD / GitOps-based delivery models.
- Experience with Pulumi
- Helm chart authoring and lifecycle management.
- Autoscaling tooling: Cluster Autoscaler/Karpenter experience.
- Policy-as-code using OPA / Conftest, and guardrails for IaC/K8s.
- Experience with DR / multi-region strategies and backup/restore automation.
- DevSecOps practices: image scanning (Trivy/Snyk), secret scanning, SAST/DAST integration.
- AWS certifications: SAA / SysOps / DevOps Engineer.
What Magnit Will Offer You
At Magnit, you'll be joining an innovative, high-growth environment and can quickly make an impact to help transform the largest companies in the world. You will work with passionate colleagues who collaborate and deliver. Magnit offers all employees the opportunity for growth and development, and we want individuals to fulfill their potential and blaze their own trails!
Magnit will offer you a competitive PTO and benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement planning, as well as discounts and perks for tickets, travel, merchandise and more! Magnit encourages employees to participate in giving back, and we will match employee contributions to favorite charities and support corporate volunteering hours to make a difference in your community!
If this role isn't for you
Stay in touch, we will let you know when we have new positions on the team.
To see a complete list of our open career opportunities please visit.
https://magnitglobal.com/us/en/company/careers.html
To do our best work we need different viewpoints. Therefore, we celebrate diversity and embrace inclusion.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are dedicated to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strive to ensure that we maintain a positive and enriching work environment for all.
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