Cloud DevOps Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD

REGION 4 ESC

Houston (TX)

On-site

USD 87,000 - 104,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Region 4 Education Service Center in Houston seeks a DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and continuously improve scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure and deployment pipelines. You will drive automation across development and operations, leveraging cloud technologies to optimize cost and efficiency while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality product releases.

The role requires 3 years of DevOps/SRE experience, strong AWS and Kubernetes skills, and

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a technical field preferred
3 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles
Strong experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, Auto Scaling Groups, Route53, Lambda, CloudWatch)
Hands-on with ArgoCD and GitOps for continuous deployment
Experience with Helm charts for packaging and deploying Kubernetes apps
Solid understanding of AWS IAM and IRSA for secure pod permissions
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)

Responsibilities

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated testing, integration, and deployments.
Manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize system performance across distributed applications and microservices.
Implement automation for configuration management, provisioning, and workflow orchestration (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.).
Enhance system reliability and availability through observability, log management, alerts, and incident response.
Collaborate with development teams to streamline build processes and deployment strategies.
Maintain containerized environments using Docker and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, ECS, EKS).
Ensure security best practices in infrastructure, pipelines, secrets management, and access control.
Document systems, standards, and procedures to improve maintainability and knowledge sharing.