Top DevOps & Platform Engineering Jobs in Lexington, KY

The role involves ensuring software reliability and performance, managing incidents, developing infrastructure automation, and mentoring junior engineers within a platform team.

Design, build, and operate internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, developer environments, deployment workflows, and shared services. Create automation and custom tooling, prototype and productionize AI-assisted engineering workflows, strengthen cloud and container foundations (Kubernetes, IaC), instrument platforms with telemetry, and own platform projects end-to-end including rollout, adoption, and on-call.

Lead and grow a backend/platform engineering team building API-driven systems and core services. Own technical direction, architecture, reliability, and integration with product, data science, and infrastructure. Hire and mentor engineers, contribute to code and architecture, support incident response, and ensure scalable, secure, production-ready backend APIs and platform tooling.

Own and evolve Babylist's AWS infrastructure and developer platform using Terraform and Kubernetes. Improve CI/CD reliability, support engineers across environments, define monitoring and alerting standards, lead incident response and postmortems, and shape platform architecture to scale for millions of users.

Leads server and virtual environment operations, system administration, security, user access, backups, troubleshooting, application deployments, and infrastructure projects. Monitors Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, file security, and system performance; maintains documentation and SOPs; supports users and help desk functions; mentors team members; and coordinates system initiatives, budgeting, and disaster recovery. The role is on-site, includes occasional travel to satellite locations, and requires after-hours and weekend on-call coverage.

Develop and maintain reliable infrastructure and software platforms across engineering teams. Manage AWS accounts and networking, Kubernetes clusters, observability and monitoring tools, and CI/CD systems. Write and improve code, support production workloads, participate in on-call operations, estimate work, collaborate across teams, and drive reliability, performance, and continuous improvement.

Designs and architects large-scale VMware virtualization environments, implements and administers vCenter suite components and ESXi hosts, performs server consolidation and migrations (V2V/P2V), manages VM templates and right-sizing, supports Cisco UCS administration, Windows Server administration, troubleshooting, documentation, and cross-site technical coordination.

Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-focused CI/CD pipelines and container platforms. Implement IaC (Helm/Terraform), security controls in pipelines, observability tooling, Linux scripting, and troubleshoot distributed systems.

The DevOps Engineer will manage and optimize platform operations, infrastructure, reliability, security, and production processes. Responsibilities include building CI/CD pipelines, maintaining AWS and containerized infrastructure, troubleshooting degraded services, improving monitoring and logging, and managing security tools. The role requires collaboration, documentation, system-level troubleshooting, and client-facing communication. This is a full-time remote position supporting a long-term federal contract project.

Develops and sustains Microsoft Azure platform capabilities, including AKS operations, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, secure deployment, and reliability practices. Translates stakeholder and security requirements into maintainable technical solutions, troubleshoots platform and integration issues, supports releases and production transitions, and creates reusable automation, documentation, test evidence, and operational runbooks. Collaborates with government stakeholders, architects, cybersecurity, QA, product, infrastructure, and operations teams.