About You This is ahigh‐impact, high‐expectation senior DevOps/SRE rolesupporting a Private Equity Group (PEG) platform. The team is new, the infrastructure is new, and the customer is extremely selective and private.You must operate withstrong autonomy, influence engineering decisions, challenge assumptions, and serve as athought partnerrather than an order‐taker. You will work directly withVP‐level stakeholdersin a technical environment where reliability, deployment safety, and clarity in communication are essential.This position requires someone who canown DevOps architecture end‐to‐end, enable safe and frequent deployments, and establish operational excellence from day zero.Note:This position is offered under acontractor model for a period of 6 months .You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies Proven ownership ofproduction-grade CI/CD pipelinesusing GitHub Actions reusable workflows and GitOps automation withArgoCD. Expert-levelKubernetes and EKS operations, including node group management, Karpenter autoscaling, RBAC, PDBs, and topology constraints. Production-scaleTerraform expertise, including module design,S3 + DynamoDB remote state, and PR-driven workflows viaAtlantis. Strongreliability engineering experience, including SLO/SLI design, alerting strategies, dashboards, incident response, and post-incident reviews. Hands-on experience operatingHashiCorp Vault, including auth backends, PKI, dynamic secrets, and audit logging. Experience implementingsupply-chain security controls, including image scanning and signing, SBOM generation, and policy enforcement with OPA/Gatekeeper. Strong experience withobservability stacks, including Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Alertmanager. Experience withservice mesh technologies such as Istio, including traffic management, mTLS, AuthorizationPolicies, and circuit breaking. Scripting ability usingPython and Bashfor automation and operational tooling. Active use ofAI-assisted engineering toolssuch as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Cloud Code to accelerate IaC development, incident response, and runbook generation. Strong communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and confidently withVP-level stakeholdersduring operational incidents. Advanced English proficiency, as you will work directly with US-based clients.You Will Be Accountable for the Following Responsibilities Design and maintainGitHub Actions reusable workflowsacross a multi-repository ecosystem. OwnGitOps deployments through ArgoCD, including promotion workflows, sync policies, drift detection, and automated rollback strategies. Implement deployment safety mechanisms such asenvironment protections, concurrency rules, and verification gates. Operate and upgradeEKS clusters, including Karpenter provisioning, node groups, and critical cluster add-ons. MaintainTerraform-driven infrastructureand enforce PR-driven workflows through Atlantis. Define and maintainSLOs, SLIs, alerting rules, and monitoring dashboardsacross platform services. Leadincident response, coordinate recovery efforts, and execute structured post-incident reviews. Participate in anon-call rotationand contribute to improving operational processes. Operate and maintainHashiCorp Vault, including policies, authentication backends, and secret engines. Implementsupply-chain security controls, including Trivy scanning, Cosign signing, SBOM generation, and OPA/Gatekeeper enforcement. Partner with Security Engineering onnetwork policies, egress controls, and compliance standards. Automate repetitive tasks and maintainproactive runbooksto reduce operational risk. UseAI toolsto improve infrastructure automation, documentation, and deployment safety validation. Collaborate with product teams to strengthenSLOs and deployment safety practices. Challenge technical assumptions and advocate forscalable, secure DevOps architectures .Qualifications Proven end-to-end ownership of production-grade Kubernetes/EKS environments including Karpenter and Atlantis-driven Terraform workflows. Demonstrated expertise with ArgoCD GitOps patterns. Hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault, supply-chain security controls, and structured incident response including on-call rotations and post-incident reviews. Active use of AI-assisted tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Cloud Code as part of daily engineering workflow.Additional Information About UsWe Are Engineered Different.At Applaudo, talented people design, build, and scale meaningful, AI-powered solutions that create real business impact. As an AI-native organization, we collaborate across design, development, cloud, data, and artificial intelligence to turn ideas into scalable products that transform how companies operate, make decisions, and grow.We are building a high-performance culture grounded in five values:Empowering Excellence, Collaborative Teamwork, Unsolicited Respect, Consistent Transparency, and Efficient Communication. These define how we work, how we support one another, and how we hold ourselves accountable.Applaudo is a place for people who want to learn fast, take ownership, and work alongside strong teams they are proud to belong to. Joining us means being part of an organization that is evolving intentionally, investing in modern ways of working, and leading AI-native transformation at scale.