Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We serve everyone from one-person startups to over 30% of the Fortune 100 with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential.

Last year, more than $3.8 billion of work was done through Upwork by skilled professionals who are gaining more control by finding work they are passionate about and innovating their careers.

This is an engagement through Upwork’s Hybrid Workforce Solutions (HWS) Team. Our Hybrid Workforce Solutions Team is a general group of professionals that supports Upwork’s business. Our HWS team members are located all over the world.

The K8s team runs the container orchestration infrastructure and platform services for the company. In addition to the K8s clusters, the team maintains the edge infrastructure of proxies between the internet feed and the cluster ingresses.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be working on both Kubernetes-based solutions and the current stack of nginx based, providing support for production‑grade environments.



You will participate in the evolution of the K8s environment as well as in the design and implementation of the new edge solution that will be based on up‑to‑date industry standards using an envoy‑based product.

Responsibilities
- You will be implementing features in the areas described above as part of ongoing development or in response to our user community requests.
- You will participate in supporting the team’s managed infrastructure and code base, including troubleshooting of business‑critical systems.

The ideal candidate combines deep knowledge of deploying K8s workloads in an AWS EKS environment with the use of proxies for complex request routing and manipulation applications.

Must Haves (Required Skills)
- Hands‑on experience with microservices architectures and specifically discovery, service‑to‑service communication patterns, and high availability deployments on Kubernetes c

📌 Contract: Senior DevOps Engineer (Colombia)
🏢 Upwork
📍 Colombia