Senior DevOps AWS / EKS Engineer

About the role

Centaurea is hiring a Senior DevOps AWS / EKS Engineer to build secure, reliable and observable infrastructure for a client's production AWS environment. The role is on-site in Tbilisi (Georgia) or Minsk (Belarus), with a net salary of $3,000 - $4,500 USD plus bonus and token-based equity. Candidates come from GKE, AKS or on-prem backgrounds and are given a reduced starting rate for the first months while converting to AWS.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the client's production AWS environment, including Kubernetes clusters (EKS preferred).
• Implement security: least-privilege IAM and workload identity, secrets management, network policies, image scanning and supply-chain controls, audit logging.
• Build observability with Loki, Grafana, Tempo and Mimir.
• Write Python scripts for automation and tooling, and integrate LLM agents and MCP servers into real workflows.
• Own changes: plan, dry-run, stage, monitor dashboards after rollout and handle incidents and rollbacks.

Required profile

• 5+ years of Kubernetes experience in production, EKS preferred.
• Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, distributed systems and security.
• Open to feedback, a finisher who handles failure modes and runbooks, and treats security as part of the job.
• Realistic, curious and able to explain complex problems plainly.

Required skills

• Kubernetes (EKS)
• AWS (certification such as DevOps Engineer Professional, Solutions Architect Professional or Security Specialty is ideal)
• Python
• LGTM observability stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir)
• IAM, secrets management, network policies, image and supply-chain security
• LLM agents and MCP servers

What we offer

• Net salary of $3,000 - $4,500 USD, with performance bonuses and token-based equity for long-term contributors.
• 100% official employment with a stable salary.
• Comfortable offices near the subway in Minsk or Tbilisi, with flexible hours and in-person collaboration.