DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Location: Houston, TX - Onsite - Flexible schedule

Type: Full-Time

Department: Platform Engineering

Reports to: Lead Developer

The Role

We re looking for a DevOps Engineer who treats infrastructure like software, obsesses over automation, and thrives in high-velocity environments. You ll own the bridge between development and operations, ensuring our systems are reliable, scalable, and secure from CI/CD pipelines to production monitoring.

What You ll Do

Core Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.
• Automate everything: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation), configuration management (Ansible, Chef), and deployment scripts.
• Own cloud infrastructure on AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform (VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, etc.).
• Implement observability: Logging (ELK, Loki), metrics (PrometheGrafana), tracing (OpenTelemetry), and alerting (PagerDuty/Opsgenie).
• Drive reliability: Chaos engineering, SLOs/SLIs, on-call rotation, and incident response.
• Secure the stack: Secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), IAM policies, vulnerability scanning, and compliance (SOC2, GDPR).
• Collaborate with developers to improve deployment speed, reduce toil, and enable self-service platforms.
• Champion GitOps and progressive delivery (blue-green, canary, feature flags).

What You Bring

Must-Have

• 3+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering.
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred).
• Mastery of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform strongly preferred).
• Strong CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins).
• Container orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS) deployments, Helm, operators.
• Scripting fluency: Bash, Python, or Go.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and security best practices.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), serverless, or edge computing.
• Contributions to open-source or internal tooling.
• Certifications: AWS DevOps, CKAD/CKA, Terraform Associate.
• Background in high-scale systems (10k+ RPS, multi-region).

Tech Stack

• Cloud: AWS (ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3)
• IaC: Terraform, Terragrunt, AWS CDK
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Flux
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Sentry
• Automation: Ansible, Python, Bash
• Security: HashiCorp Vault, Trivy, Falco