Sr. DevOps Engineer

PAR Technology Corporation is a leader in restaurant technology, empowering brands worldwide. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and support their AWS cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based application platform, focusing on reliability, scalability, security, and deployment automation.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using OpenTofu
• Operate Kubernetes workloads on Amazon EKS
• Manage GitOps deployments using Argo CD and Helm
• Develop automation and operational tooling using Python and scripting languages
• Support AWS services including Amazon EKS, Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis, Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ, load balancers, IAM, VPC networking, DNS, and security groups
• Implement monitoring, dashboards, alerts, logs, metrics, and tracing using Datadog
• Troubleshoot production issues and support incident response and root cause analysis
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems, respond to incidents, and assist with after-hours maintenance or escalations as needed
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment reliability
• Partner with engineering and security teams to improve infrastructure standards, operational readiness, and cloud security
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or a similar role
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
• Production experience with Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using OpenTofu, Terraform, or similar tools
• Experience with Argo CD, Helm, and GitOps-based deployment workflows
• Strong scripting or development experience with Python
• Experience supporting Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ in production environments
• Experience with Datadog or similar observability platforms
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, DNS, TLS, ingress, and load balancing
• Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation and supporting production incident response
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills
• Strong ownership mindset, operational discipline, and a passion for automation, reliability, and continuous improvement
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, with a willingness to mentor others
• AWS or Kubernetes certifications are a plus