Top DevOps & Platform Engineering Jobs in Lexington, KY

Defines enterprise AWS cloud architecture and standards; designs secure, scalable, compliant multi-account platforms and landing zones. Builds production Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi and AWS CDK, prototypes infrastructure, reviews engineering delivery, and creates handoff documentation. Provides technical leadership, mentors architects, supports cloud strategy, evaluates AWS services, and embeds cost optimization, governance, security, and compliance practices into platform design.

Leads administration, deployment, monitoring, optimization, troubleshooting, and modernization of SQL Server and AWS database infrastructure. Supports EC2-hosted and RDS SQL Server environments alongside Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, and S3 data lake services. Diagnoses performance issues, manages replication, backups, disaster recovery, security, and large databases, develops SQL and PowerShell automation, partners with engineering and development teams, documents processes, and participates in on-call support.

Lead production support for a veterinary SaaS platform by triaging incidents, diagnosing issues across Flutter, FastAPI, gRPC, and legacy integrations, and driving permanent fixes. Build monitoring, alerting, diagnostic automation, ticket taxonomy, reporting, runbooks, and SLAs. Partner with Hospital Success and Engineering to resolve customer-impacting issues, identify recurring failure patterns, and communicate technical problems clearly to clinic staff and internal stakeholders.

Lead the evolution of cloud-native infrastructure by architecting and scaling AWS EKS clusters, standardizing Helm deployments, managing Terraform and Terragrunt infrastructure, optimizing cloud costs, and improving observability, reliability, security, and access controls. The role leads cross-team engineering initiatives, establishes DevOps best practices, and mentors engineers while supporting GitOps workflows and scalable application delivery.

Leads a 3–4 person Site Reliability team while remaining hands-on with software engineering, incident response, infrastructure automation, platform tooling, observability, disaster recovery, and modernization. Owns technical direction, reliability outcomes, technical debt, architecture, code reviews, hiring, performance management, career development, and team processes. The role participates in on-call and drives platform adoption, self-service, delivery quality, and effective AI-assisted development.

Designs, builds, and maintains DevSecOps platforms, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, infrastructure-as-code, and automated security validation. Supports AWS networking, image hardening, risk assessments, DoD and NIST compliance, system testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and Agile delivery for United States Navy systems. Requires collaboration across engineering teams, technical writers, and project work teams, along with periodic travel and active Secret clearance.

Provides L3/L4 operational support and engineering for Citrix and Azure Virtual Desktop environments. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, platform administration, endpoint and identity management, patching, monitoring, disaster recovery, automation with Infrastructure as Code, performance and cost optimization, client advisory, documentation, incident response, and mentoring. The role supports multiple enterprise customer environments while improving reliability, security, governance, and service delivery.

Leads the architecture, reliability, scaling, and evolution of hybrid-cloud, data center, networking, and workplace infrastructure. Designs and implements complex systems, drives migrations and automation, improves monitoring and operational practices, participates in incident analysis, and provides technical direction across teams. The role remains hands-on while mentoring engineers, documenting systems, and establishing infrastructure standards. Core technologies include VMware, Cisco UCS, load balancers, Linux/Unix, networking, Infrastructure as Code, and Python.

Own Alkira’s global platform infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD systems, shared databases and storage, service lifecycle, disaster recovery, Terraform modules, observability, and production tooling in Go or Python. Drive architectural decisions, cost reduction, reliability, security, and multi-team platform adoption while mentoring engineers and participating in on-call support.

Deploy, integrate, operate, and optimize high-performance NFS storage for GPU-accelerated Kubernetes and AI platforms. Configure Linux storage and networking, integrate CSI storage into k0s and K0rdent clusters, automate provisioning through Terraform/OpenTofu and GitOps, and build observability for capacity, performance, and reliability. Diagnose end-to-end storage issues across hybrid, edge, and air-gapped environments while establishing operational standards.