Cloud DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes, CI/CD & Terraform

Region 4 Education Service Center; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 87,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

Region 4 Education Service Center is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Houston to design, implement, and optimize scalable, secure infrastructure and deployment pipelines. You will drive automation across development and operations, leverage cloud technologies to reduce cost and improve efficiency, and partner with cross-functional teams to enable rapid software releases.

This role requires hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and various CI/CD tools, plus a strong focus on

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related engineering roles
• Strong experience with AWS cloud platform (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, Auto Scaling Groups, Route53, Lambda, CloudWatch)
• Hands-on experience with ArgoCD or other GitOps tools for continuous deployment
• Experience with Helm charts for packaging and deploying Kubernetes applications
• Solid understanding of AWS IAM and IRSA for secure pod-level 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 using Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar
• Enhance system reliability & availability through observability, log management, alerting, and incident response best practices
• Collaborate closely with development teams to streamline build processes, improve deployment strategies, and ensure production readiness
• 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

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Linux

Security

Networking

Automation

Agile

Ownership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or IT

Tools

ArgoCD

Helm

AWS (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM)

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

CircleCI

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Docker

Kubernetes

Pulumi

Job description

Region 4 Education Service Center is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Houston to design, implement, and optimize scalable, secure infrastructure and deployment pipelines. You will drive automation across development and operations, leverage cloud technologies to reduce cost and improve efficiency, and partner with cross-functional teams to enable rapid software releases.

This role requires hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and various CI/CD tools, plus a strong focus on