DevOps Engineer (Airflow & Kubernetes)
Apollo Technology Solutions LLC
Full-time | Contract
United States
Job description
Job Title: DevOps Engineer (Airflow & Kubernetes)
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 6-month contract to start, (potentially convert to full time after 6 months)
Working Hours: 1:00pm 10:00pm CST daily
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in Airflow, Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation. This role is critical to supporting our production environment, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficient deployment of applications and workflows. The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience with Airflow DAGs, Kubernetes deployments, and monitoring tools, and is comfortable working in a fast-paced production support environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 6-month contract to start, (potentially convert to full time after 6 months)
Working Hours: 1:00pm 10:00pm CST daily
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in Airflow, Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation. This role is critical to supporting our production environment, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficient deployment of applications and workflows. The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience with Airflow DAGs, Kubernetes deployments, and monitoring tools, and is comfortable working in a fast-paced production support environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage deployment pipelines using Jenkins for multiple web and application servers
- Deploy and maintain applications in Kubernetes environments (AKS preferred) using Helm/Kubectl
- Implement, configure, and troubleshoot Airflow (v2.10 or 3.0+) via Helm charts in Kubernetes
- Develop and maintain Airflow DAGs (Python) for complex schedules, triggers, cron jobs, and hooks
- Monitor and troubleshoot Airflow DAG execution daily across multiple environments
- Configure alerts/notifications for production and UAT job failures; respond in line with SLAs
- Utilize monitoring and observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus) for production support
- Manage version control and release processes using Git or similar repositories
- Write and maintain Shell and Python scripts to automate operational tasks
- Provide production support during scheduled hours and extended coverage as needed
- Strong understanding of web and application server architecture
- Proven experience with Jenkins for CI/CD pipelines
- Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (AKS preferred) and Helm
- In-depth experience configuring and supporting Airflow in Kubernetes
- Solid Python development skills, specifically for Airflow DAGs
- Proficiency with monitoring/observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus)
- Strong scripting ability in Shell and Python
- Excellent troubleshooting skills and ability to resolve production issues quickly