Top DevOps & Platform Engineering Jobs in Lexington, KY

Leads enterprise cloud infrastructure architecture and strategy across Azure, AWS, GCP, and hybrid environments. Establishes standards for security, reliability, observability, disaster recovery, identity governance, automation, and cost optimization. Drives cloud modernization, migrations, SaaS and AI integrations, and Infrastructure as Code practices. Acts as a principal technical authority, conducting design reviews, resolving complex cross-platform challenges, mentoring engineers, evaluating technologies, and aligning business and security requirements with scalable solutions.

Designs and manages scalable GCP platforms for enterprise applications including Netcracker, Alepo, and Axiros. Responsibilities include developing Terraform infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, upgrade automation, internal developer platforms, incident management, root cause analysis, performance optimization, rightsizing, and security guardrails. The role supports cross-functional engineering teams and participates in on-call rotations to maintain high service availability.

Leads DevOps and application operations for critical enterprise applications. Responsibilities include production reliability, SLO and SLA management, incident response, release and deployment operations, observability, automation, capacity planning, disaster recovery, security compliance, performance optimization, stakeholder service reviews, and mentoring AppOps engineers. The role supports 24x7 reliability through on-call participation and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, cloud, security, and compliance teams.

Design, build, test, and operate backend control plane, platform, and identity services. Implement identity features (SSO, OAuth2, SAML, WebAuthn), SCIM sync, and scalable distributed systems. Own observability, incident response, on-call duties, and improve system stability, security, and efficiency while collaborating with product and design.

Own operational excellence for cloud infrastructure: run incident management, improve reliability through automation, own a platform domain (e.g., Kubernetes, Temporal, observability), manage vendor and cost relationships, and deliver measurable reductions in incidents and costs within 12 months.

Leads and mentors Field Engineers responsible for secure software integrations and deployments into customer-owned, hybrid, tactical-edge, and disconnected environments. Provides technical direction on deployment architecture, automation, tooling, networking, infrastructure, monitoring, and operational reliability. Oversees readiness, documentation, compliance alignment, customer deployments, demonstrations, mission events, and post-deployment improvements while partnering across Engineering, Product, Security, and Mission Operations.

Own production operations and highly available cloud infrastructure for regulated government environments. Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery testing, compliance operationalization, audit readiness, vulnerability management, and continuous monitoring. Build automation, secure CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and compliance tooling across Kubernetes, Linux, containers, and cloud platforms. Partner with security, compliance, and engineering teams to improve reliability, deployment safety, and regulatory sustainment.

Design, build, and operate core platform infrastructure on AWS using Terraform and Kubernetes. Own end-to-end projects, CI/CD pipelines, observability, security best practices, and production reliability while contributing to architecture decisions, documentation, runbooks, and mentoring. Participate in on-call rotation and automate recurring work.

Lead a small infrastructure engineering team while remaining approximately 50% hands-on. Own production reliability and modernization of Swiftly’s Azure Kubernetes platform, complete migration from legacy infrastructure, improve developer experience, and deliver infrastructure initiatives. Set priorities, coach engineers, partner with security and compliance teams, establish pragmatic technical guardrails, and promote AI-assisted development and operations.

Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud or hybrid infrastructure with automated CI/CD, monitoring, and cloud optimization to ensure 99.9% uptime. Lead migration efforts, implement monitoring and performance strategies, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain platform stability.