Summary
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A DevOps Engineer is sought for a hybrid contract role focused on production cloud operations and enterprise infrastructure. The position offers strong exposure to AWS, Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes and Helm, CI/CD, monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, and root-cause analysis. The successful candidate will independently diagnose complex production issues, improve deployment reliability, and maintain scalable infrastructure across multiple environments.
Highlights
Hybrid schedule with substantial remote flexibility, competitive hourly compensation, and an opportunity to own complex cloud infrastructure, automation, Kubernetes operations, and production reliability.
Description
Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Houston, TX 77002 (2 day Onsite, 3 day REMOTE)
Duration: 06 - 12 Months Contract
Pay Range: $50-$53/hr
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
AWS Production Support: Independently diagnose complex issues, lead root-cause analysis, and drive reliable solutions across AWS services including ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, IAM, networking, logging, and monitoring.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provision, design, develop, debug, and maintain enterprise-scale Terraform infrastructure.
Build reusable modules, manage remote state, review execution plans, troubleshoot drift, and safely apply change automation across environments.
Container & Kubernetes Management: Manage and maintain Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests for application and platform deployments.
Lead or contribute to production deployments, upgrades, incident resolution, and operational support for EKS/Kubernetes platforms.
Deployment & CI/CD Pipelines: Deploy and troubleshoot distributed applications using Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, or EKS (incorporating service discovery, ingress/load balancing, network policies, and logging/monitoring) via GitOps or CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Harness, Argo CD, Flux).
Technical Leadership & Documentation: Take ownership of ambiguous production issues, explain technical risks and tradeoffs to leadership and cross-functional teams, mentor junior/mid-level engineers, and produce clear runbooks, design notes, and support documentation.
Operational Excellence: Maintain observability, incident response, change management, security hardening, disaster recovery awareness, and continuous improvement of platform reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
Required Qualifications & Experience
Senior AWS Experience: 7+ years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure experience, including 5+ years supporting, troubleshooting, and improving production workloads on AWS.
Terraform Expertise: 5+ years designing, developing, debugging, and maintaining Terraform-based infrastructure for AWS.
Must have direct experience provisioning/managing infrastructure using Terraform (not just consuming prebuilt modules) and deep understanding of state management, resource dependencies, module versioning, and policy controls.
Container & Kubernetes Depth: 5+ years of experience with containerized workloads and 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes or EKS experience in production environments.
Thorough understanding of cluster operations, workload deployment, Helm, kubectl, autoscaling, networking, and IAM/RBAC integration.
Skill Level: Senior Level with greater than 8 years of total experience.
Preferred Certifications
AWS Certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional OR AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (Associate-level considered with strong senior hands-on experience).
Kubernetes Certifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), or equivalent hands-on container platform experience
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time, hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, and paid holidays annually - as applicable.
