Platform & DevOps Engineer

Platform & DevOps Engineer (Hybrid)

Location:

Upper Sandusky, OH (The "Reverse Commute" 25 mins from Findlay/Marion)

Work Style:

Hybrid (Targeting 2 days in-office for deep collaboration)

Tech Stack:

Azure, Kubernetes, FluxCD, OpenTofu/Terraform, GitHub ActionsThe Opportunity:

High-Tech Impact in the Heart of OhioForget the "big tech" grind and the soul-crushing traffic of I-71. At Kalmbach Feeds, we are proof that world-class engineering happens in the 419. We are looking for a Platform Engineer to be the architect of our digital foundation. You wont just be a ticket-taker; you will be the one building the GitOps pipelines and Kubernetes environments that power a regional leader in animal nutrition.

Why this role is different:

Modern Stack, Zero Legacy Debt:

We use FluxCD, OpenTofu, and OpenTelemetry. Youre coming into an environment that values "doing it right" over "doing it fast."The "Reverse Commute": Located in Upper Sandusky, we offer an easy, traffic-free drive for those living in Findlay, Marion, Tiffin, or Delaware. Spend your "commute" listening to a podcast, not staring at brake lights.

Direct Impact:

Your work directly ensures that millions of animals are fed efficiently. In a world of "apps for apps," we build technology that supports the physical world.

What Youll Own (The 2026 Roadmap):

GitOps Mastery:

You will lead our shift toward GitOps-based workflows using FluxCD, ensuring our deployments are version-controlled, repeatable, and boring (in a good way).K8s

Orchestration:

Manage and scale our Kubernetes clusters on Azure, optimizing for both performance and cost-efficiency.

Developer Experience (DevEx): Partner with our software teams to remove friction. If a developer has to do something manually twice, youre the one who automates it.

Infrastructure as

Code:

Maintain our environment using OpenTofu/Terraform and Ansible, treating our infrastructure with the same rigor as our application code.

Observability:

Implement OpenTelemetry and Grafana to give us 20/20 vision into system health before issues become outages.

Who You Are:

The "Automation First"

Mindset:

You have 2+ years of experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering. You find manual tasks offensive.

Cloud Native:

You are comfortable in Azure (or AWS/GCP with a willingness to pivot) and understand the nuances of cloud-scale networking and security.

The Container Expert:

You don't just "use" Docker; you understand how Kubernetes manages state and scaling in a hybrid environment.

Collaborative Architect:

You can explain complex infrastructure to a developer and work alongside them to solve a performance bottleneck.