AWS DevOps / Platform Engineer III - - Only Local to Houston, TX

AWS DevOps / Platform Engineer III
Houston, TX (Downtown) 100% Onsite (Monday Friday)

Only Local to Houston, TX

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior (Level III) DevOps/Platform Engineer to design, build and operate scalable AWS Infrastructure and related DevOps for AI, Data Science, and Application engineering workloads. You will work under minimal supervision with a cross-functional team working closely with Platform Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and DataOps Engineers in the AWS ecosystem. You will help drive automation initiatives utilizing IaC, SaC, and CI/CD best-practices techniques.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) across multi-account AWS environments.
• Build, improve, automate and shift-left CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement, automate, and enforce defined Security & Compliance policies at the resource/repository level.
• Understand and support deployment automation into diverse containerized clusters and data platforms.
• Support complicated pipelines involving multi-cloud, multi-platform, and on-premises systems.
• Mentor mid-level/junior engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years working in the AWS ecosystem as a DevOps/Platform engineer, deep AWS expertise.
• 5+ years working with IaC tools like, Terraform or CloudFormation.
• 5+ years supporting Kubernetes and containerized orchestration.
• 5+ years scripting/programming with industry standard languages/tools (Python, Bash, Shell).
• 5+ years Linux/Unix experience.
• 5+ years code repository experience (GitHub, GitLab, ADO).
• 3+ years supporting CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, etc).
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and architecture patterns.
• Excellent troubleshooting and incident-response skills.
• AWS architecture certification is preferred.

TOP DAILY PRIORITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES (what will this resource be specifically tasked with)

• Initially will be tasked to help automate Compliance integrations into the CICD pipelines and our company compliance tool with Terraform.
• On-site, 5 days a week. No remote work. Downtown office.
• Occasional travel to the West Houston office is preferred but not required.

Automate IaC with Terraform and Python and Shell