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Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate secure, highly available AWS infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu and GitOps workflows.
- Operate and evolve the EKS Kubernetes platform, including autoscaling with Karpenter, upgrades, core add-ons, and Helm-based delivery with ArgoCD.
- Build and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines and self-service developer tooling.
- Own networking, ingress and egress, service mesh, mTLS, load balancing, edge TLS, and DNS.
- Build observability using OpenTelemetry and SigNoz and use telemetry to guide reliability, performance, and cost decisions.
- Lead troubleshooting, complex incident escalation, and post-mortems.
- Apply cloud security practices across identity, secrets, network boundaries, vulnerability tooling, and organizational guardrails.
- Lead infrastructure projects end to end, set standards, mentor engineers, and improve the platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience operating large-scale cloud infrastructure, with AWS strongly preferred.
- Deep infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or OpenTofu; CloudFormation, Pulumi, or CDK are also relevant.
- Strong production experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including EKS.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash scripting and automation.
- Solid cloud networking fundamentals covering VPC, DNS, load balancing, ingress, firewalls/WAF, and VPNs.
- Proven CI/CD and GitOps experience with GitHub Actions or similar tools.
- Experience using metrics, logs, and traces to drive operational decisions.
- Track record of independently leading infrastructure projects end to end.
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred experience with ArgoCD, Atlantis, Linkerd, Envoy, Traefik, Karpenter, Helm, OpenTelemetry, SigNoz, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, Backstage, or other internal developer platforms.
- AI/ML infrastructure experience, including GPU scheduling, model or agent hosting, or inference gateways, is preferred.
- Rust service CI/CD, CloudFront/CDN experience, an AWS Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer Professional certification, distributed-systems experience, and open-source infrastructure contributions are preferred.
Benefits
- The role is part of a small, senior-leaning Platform team with direct impact on reliability, performance, cost, and developer velocity.
- The company supports learning technology focused on helping students build academic and life skills.
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About Level
Level builds a learning technology platform that combines established curriculum principles with interactive, game-style design to help students practice academic and life skills. The product runs on a forked, optimized Godot engine engineered to perform reliably on mobile and other constrained hardware. It targets students and educators seeking repeatable, meaningful practice in a format that feels like a game.