DevOps Engineer

Robotic Process Automation LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 138,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Robotic Technologies Automation seeks a DevOps Architect to lead on-prem and hybrid deployments, designing scalable CI/CD pipelines and artifact management. You will work with Harness, manage CI/CD runners, and integrate with Git repositories (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab) in a primarily on-prem environment.

The role emphasizes cloud migration experience, microservices architectures, and strong Windows/Linux administration skills to ensure platform reliability and scalable deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience as a DevOps Architect with on-prem and hybrid deployments.
• Proficient with Harness CD/CI and pipeline orchestration.
• Cloud migration and microservices architecture experience.
• Familiarity with SAST/DAST and SQL.
• Windows/Linux system administration experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage CD/CI pipelines for on-prem and hybrid environments.
• Implement artifact management, rollbacks, canary/blue-green deployments.
• Operate Harness delegates for on-prem workloads and integrate with repos (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab).
• Configure CI pipelines, build workflows, and manage CI runners/delegates.

Skills

Devops Architect

Harness CI/CD

Devops

Cloud Migration

Microservices Architectures

SAST/DAST

SQL

Windows/Linux system administration

Tools

GitHub

Bitbucket

GitLab

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)

Job description

Role: Devops Architect
Location: Fort Worth, TX (3 days onsite per week)
Duration: 12+ Months Contract

Mandatory Areas

• Must Have Skills – Devops Architect
• Skill 1 – Yrs of Exp – Harness CI/CD
• Skill 2 – Yrs of Exp – Devops
• Skill 3 – Yrs of Exp – Cloud Migration
• Skill 4 – Yrs of Exp - Microservices Architectures

Good To have Skills –

• Skill 1 – Yrs of Exp – SAST/ DAST
• Skill 2 – Yrs of Exp – SQL
• Skill 3 – Yrs of Exp – Windows/Linux system administration

Harness Continuous Delivery (CD) Creating & managing pipelines Deployments to on-prem & hybrid environments Artifact management & integration Rollbacks, canary/blue green deployments

Working with Harness delegates (very important for on-prem) Harness Continuous Integration (CI) Configuring CI pipelines Integrating with code repositories (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab) Setting up build workflows & caching Managing CI runners / delegates locally CI/CD Tools Beyond Harness Even though Harness is main, broader DevOps CI/CD experience helps: Jenkins Azure DevOps On-Prem DevOps & Deployment Skills

Since deployments are heavily on-prem, these skills are essential: Windows/Linux system administration
Understanding of VMs, hypervisors environments Networking fundamentals (DNS, NAT, routing, firewalls) Cloud Migration Skills Even if primarily on-prem, cloud migration experience is valuable: At least one major cloud: AWS (most common)
Cloud Migration Concepts Lift and shift Re-platforming & re-architecting Hybrid cloud connectivity (VPN, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect) Migrating databases and workloads to cloud Cloud cost optimization basics Cloud

Native Tools: Managed Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) Cloud networking & load balancers Cloud storage options

Good to Have: Database Ops Experience

• This is an advantage for DevOps roles interacting with app/infrastructure teams.
• Basics of SQL (queries, schemas, indexing) Operations: backup/restore, replication basics, monitoring Automated DB patching Database migration tools (Flyway, Liquibase) DB performance monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, NewRelic, etc.)
• Observability & Monitoring Since DevOps often manages platform health: Dynatrace Prometheus + Grafana ELK / OpenSearch Datadog Security & Compliance HashiCorp Vault or Azure Key Vault SAST/DAST tools Secrets management SSL/TLS certificate management

• Bonus Skills (Valuable but Optional) Version control branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk based) API Gateways (Apigee, NGINX Plus)

Experience in microservices architectures

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.