Cloud/DevOps Engineer - III

Compunnel, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Compunnel, Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join the Cloud SRE team in Dallas, Texas. In this role, you will design and develop cloud solutions, ensuring platform reliability and engineering reliability tools.

The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of software development experience, strong AWS skills, and advanced proficiency in Python. Responsibilities include building Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and developing CI/CD pipelines. Join us in leveraging innovative cloud solutions!

Qualifications

• 7+ years of extensive experience in software development focused on reliability and platform engineering.
• 5+ years of advanced Python development skills with proven experience building enterprise-grade tools.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing AWS solutions with deep understanding of core services.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain reliability solutions and SRE utilities.
• Build and optimize Infrastructure as Code using Terraform for AWS.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and automated testing to ensure code quality.

Skills

Python development

AWS services

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD pipelines

SRE principles

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or Information Systems

Tools

Terraform

Grafana

AWS CloudWatch

Job description

Job Summary

As a Senior Cloud Engineer in the Cloud SRE team, you will be responsible for designing and developing cloud solutions and engineering reliability tools for the Cloud Foundation Services (CFS) platform. You will apply software engineering practices to build scalable, reusable solutions and utilities that enhance platform reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain reliability solutions and SRE utilities to reduce toil, improve cloud platform reliability, and industrialize SRE practices.
• Build and optimize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to manage AWS resources, incorporating cost‑efficient design principles.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and automated testing to ensure code quality, reliability, and rapid delivery of solutions.
• Define SRE standards, best practices, and guidelines for adoption across teams.
• Establish SRE metrics like SLI, SLOs, etc.
• Apply software engineering best practices including version control, code reviews, test‑driven development, and documentation.
• Participate in incident management and on‑call rotation, providing technical support, troubleshooting production issues, and collaborating with teams to reduce incident recurrence.
• Stay current with emerging AWS services, SRE methodologies, and cloud‑native development technologies, and drive adoption of innovative solutions.
• Collaborate within Agile and Scaled Agile frameworks with cross‑functional teams to deliver integrated cloud automation solutions.
• Produce clear, blameless postmortems with actionable items and documented failure scenarios.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent background or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of extensive experience in software development with focus on reliability and platform engineering.
• 5+ years of advanced Python development skills with proven experience building enterprise‑grade, highly available tools, APIs, and utilities.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience developing solutions in AWS environments with deep understanding of core services (EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, EventBridge, Step Functions, etc.) and resource cost optimization.
• 3+ years of experience applying SRE principles including observability, toil automation, SLIs/SLOs and reliability engineering.
• Expert‑level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, including module development and state management.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with observability tools and practices including Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Canary.
• Experience defining, implementing, and managing SLOs/SLIs and error budgets; familiarity with conducting RCAs and producing postmortem documentation.
• Working experience in Agile and Scaled Agile environments and familiarity with ITSM processes (incident, change, and problem management), resilience testing and chaos engineering practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GoLang or additional programming languages.

Certifications

• None specified.