Top DevOps & Platform Engineering Jobs in Lexington, KY

The Senior Platform Engineer will collaborate with teams to design and implement robust platform solutions, manage Kubernetes clusters, automate infrastructure, and ensure reliability in cloud environments, all while supporting critical systems.

Senior Platform Engineer responsible for architecting, deploying, and operating Kubernetes and cloud platforms (primarily Azure), building IaC with Terraform, designing CI/CD pipelines, leading cloud migrations and modernization, automating containerized deployments, and ensuring secure, reliable infrastructure for regulated enterprise clients.

Design, build, and support cloud platforms and Kubernetes clusters on AWS/Azure; implement Terraform-based IaC and CI/CD pipelines; lead cloud migrations and modernization of legacy workloads; automate scaling and deployments; monitor and optimize system reliability, security, and cost; collaborate with stakeholders and contribute to runbooks, reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Design, configure, and optimize Azure DevOps organizations and CI/CD pipelines. Implement process templates, Portfolio++ for portfolio visibility, integrate with third-party tools, support sprint and capacity planning, troubleshoot pipelines, and create runbooks and adoption guidance for client teams.

Lead improvements in reliability, performance, scalability, capacity, and observability through automation and tooling. Partner with developers to design infrastructure and monitoring, define SLIs/SLOs, conduct load and performance testing, participate in incident response and root cause analysis, and manage monitoring services for production systems.

Lead creation of a Site Reliability (SRE) function: hire a 4–6 person team, implement incident management and on-call programs, define SLOs/SLA and runbooks, select incident tooling, and drive observability and reliability initiatives. Balance incident response with a roadmap of reliability work, mentor and retain engineers, run blameless retrospectives and design/code review practices, and collaborate with product and engineering leaders to improve operational excellence.

Lead roadmap and delivery of the developer portal and DORA/OKR dashboards, remove friction in developer experience, set production operations standards, design technical upskilling curriculum (including AI-assisted tools), run community-building and hackathons, pilot AI dev tools, and manage day-to-day delivery of an offshore team while reporting status and risks to engineering leadership.

Lead DevOps initiatives onsite, implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, web servers, APIs, secrets management, observability via Application Insights, source control and automation with GitHub/GitHub Actions, and code quality scanning with Sonar.

Design, build, and operate core platform infrastructure for an Agentic AI platform. Collaborate with cross-functional and ML teams to enable scalable, high-performance systems, provide production support and troubleshooting, and drive platform features that serve multiple products and engineering teams.

Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines. Use Terraform for IaC, build pipelines with Jenkins/Harness/GitHub Actions, script in Python/Groovy/Java, containerize apps with Docker, orchestrate with Kubernetes, onboard applications into CI/CD frameworks, and integrate security scanning and monitoring tools.

Lead design, delivery, operation, and maintenance of enterprise managed file transfer systems (IBM Sterling and other MFTs). Configure file transfer solutions, ensure secure automated transfers, provide tier‑3 support, troubleshoot issues, support ETL/data validation, implement HA clusters, build reports, and consult with business partners on file movement strategy.

Design, implement, and maintain secure cloud solutions across AWS and Azure. Build policy-as-code, automation, logging, and monitoring; enforce governance and compliance using tools like AWS Config and Azure Policy. Partner with security and development teams, investigate misconfigurations, remediate issues, and recommend improvements. Champion AI tools (Claude) to streamline work and mentor teammates on best practices.

Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable cloud automation and tooling for Azure Government. Operate mission-critical production systems (24x7 on-call), implement IaC and DevOps pipelines, resolve Azure PaaS and app issues, enforce federal security/compliance, manage IAM and deployments, support audits, and maintain technical documentation.