Cloud DevOps Engineer (Hybrid)

Title: Cloud DevOps Engineer

Location: Houston, TX (Hybrid-2 days in Office 3 days WFH)

Job type: Full-time

Job Description:

• The Back End Software Engineer is responsible for developing the back end of a web application, handling the logic, database interactions, user authentication, configuration, etc. The Back End Software Engineer evaluates emerging technologies and provides strategic, innovative, and cost-effective engineering solutions to increase the efficiency, reliability and integration of Schlumberger services and operations. This person works semi-autonomously as part of a team that performs rapid prototyping of emerging technologies to solve industry-related problems.
• Develop server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end developers.
• Integrate user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side applications.
• Collaborate with front-end developers, customers, users, and Product Managers to establish objectives and design functional, cohesive code to enhance the user experience.
• Keep abreast of novel technical concepts and markets.
• Provide technical leadership and documentation to developers and stakeholders.
• Apply usability procedures and principles as defined at the project or Product Line level or through customer input.
• Build prototypes, products and systems that meet the project quality standards and requirements.
• Contribute to and support re-use through common components that are well documented and tested.
• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics or Applied Statistics
• 7+ years of relevant experience in software engineering or related technical fields.
• This is a cloud infrastructure-focused role supporting our AI Foundations team.
• Minimum experience: 7+ years
• Top skill requirement: Expert-level Kubernetes
• Cloud & platform experience: Google Cloud Platform / AWS / Azure; Kubernetes-based platforms

Key responsibilities include:

• Platform architecture and implementation (Terraform, Kubernetes operators, Cross plane) on Azure
• Design and implementation of cloud-agnostic observability stacks (Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Tempo/Jaeger, Open Telemetry, Grafana, Alert Manager)
• Platform security (event monitoring, detection with Falco, CIS benchmarks)
• DevOps process creation and oversight, with strong GitOps best practices
• End-user enablement through internal workshops (strong communication skills required)