Cloud-Native DevOps Engineer — CI/CD & Reliability

OpenTalent; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent in Houston, TX seeks a DevOps/SRE professional to design scalable, secure infrastructure and deployment pipelines enabling rapid software delivery and reliable system performance.

The role emphasizes GitOps, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and observability, with collaboration across cross-functional teams to optimize costs, security, and reliability in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related engineering roles.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud platform (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, 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 (IAM Roles for Service Accounts) for secure pod-level permissions

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 tools like 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).

Skills

GitOps

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

IAM & IRSA

CI/CD

Linux

Networking

Monitoring

ArgoCD

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Docker

Job description

OpenTalent in Houston, TX seeks a DevOps/SRE professional to design scalable, secure infrastructure and deployment pipelines enabling rapid software delivery and reliable system performance.

The role emphasizes GitOps, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and observability, with collaboration across cross-functional teams to optimize costs, security, and reliability in a fast-paced environment.