Cloud-Native DevOps Engineer: Automation & Kubernetes

OpenTalent; Frisco (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent in Frisco, TX seeks a DevOps Engineer to boost reliability and scalability across cloud-native services. You will automate and streamline CI/CD, manage Kubernetes-based platforms, and implement IaC to support a polyglot stack including Rust services and TypeScript apps.

The role requires overseeing on-call rotations, monitoring, and incident response to keep revenue-critical systems up and performing at peak efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Manage cloud resources to ensure high availability, reliability, and security.
• Operate Kubernetes-based platforms end to end, including stateful workloads such as distributed SQL databases and event-streaming clusters (e.g., NATS, Kafka).
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost efficiency and performance.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, including code-first, containerized pipelines (e.g., Dagger, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Automate build, test, and deployment for a polyglot monorepo (e.g., Rust services and TypeScript applications) with reproducible developer toolchains.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate CI/CD best practices, including ephemeral local clusters (e.g., k3d, kind) that mirror production.
• Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) with tools such as Terraform or Ansible, plus Helm charts and GitOps workflows (e.g., Argo CD) for Kubernetes workloads.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and scaling of infrastructure.
• Ensure repeatability and consistency in infrastructure setup and deployment.
• Set up and manage monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK Stack).
• Proactively monitor systems for performance issues and outages.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and respond to incidents to minimize downtime for revenue-critical services.
• Manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.

Job description

OpenTalent in Frisco, TX seeks a DevOps Engineer to boost reliability and scalability across cloud-native services. You will automate and streamline CI/CD, manage Kubernetes-based platforms, and implement IaC to support a polyglot stack including Rust services and TypeScript apps.

The role requires overseeing on-call rotations, monitoring, and incident response to keep revenue-critical systems up and performing at peak efficiency.