DevOps Engineer II, Cloud Platform

About the role

Upstart Cloud Platform team builds and operates shared cloud infrastructure for product and machine-learning workloads across Kubernetes/EKS, AWS, service mesh, identity, and developer tooling. The role operates multi-environment clusters, AWS networking and IAM, Terraform/CDK, ArgoCD/GitOps, reliability/SLOs, incident response, developer experience, and cost optimization. Remote role available in the United States or Canada; Canada hiring excludes Quebec.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years professional experience
• 3+ years operating Kubernetes in production, including cluster networking, storage, and RBAC
• AWS infrastructure proficiency including VPC design, networking, and IAM
• Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform or AWS CDK
• GitOps workflows with ArgoCD or similar
• Technical influence across teams and platform standards
• Preferred: service mesh, multi-cluster Kubernetes, cloud networking at scale, cloud security and compliance

What you'll do

• Design and operate production, staging, and ephemeral EKS clusters
• Evolve AWS infrastructure and network architecture
• Build infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows
• Improve reliability through SLOs, incident analysis, and systemic fixes
• Participate in on-call and incident response
• Partner across reliability, security, delivery, and product teams
• Improve developer experience and reduce toil
• Optimize cloud and Kubernetes resource utilization

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