DevOps Engineer

Pizza Hut; Kearney (NE); On-site; USD 54,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Pizza Hut is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Kearney, NE for a full-time role with a salary range of $54,000–$78,000 per year. The position emphasizes site reliability, automation, and mentorship within a learning-focused culture.

Expect to optimize CI pipelines, scale infrastructure with CloudFormation, and improve Terraform test coverage while maintaining uptime and code quality. Local candidates in Kearney, NE are preferred.

Qualifications

• Finish the boring 20% that makes the rest matter.
• Demonstrated wins in technology work near Kearney, NE.
• Instinct for prioritization when everything is urgent.
• Comfort with full-time arrangements and learning-obsessed culture.
• Mentor without taking over the keyboard.
• Flag your own mistakes first.
• Strong time-management and action bias.

Responsibilities

• Keep Pizza Hut's Site Reliability Engineering CI under ten minutes.
• Re-architect the technology flow so CloudFormation handles ten times current load.
• Backfill Terraform Associate test coverage on the riskiest corners of Pizza Hut's codebase.
• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp Terraform Associate acceptance criteria.
• Ensure code quality through automated linting, testing, and static analysis.
• Defend Pizza Hut uptime through the 2 a.m. Kearney pages.
• Refactor the technology module Pizza Hut has been afraid to touch.

Skills

Time management

Prioritization

Mentoring

Integrity

Bias toward action

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Helm

CI/CD

Job description

1 years of wrestling with RabbitMQ taught you what good code feels like, and we want that instinct on our DevOps Engineer team. Set against the usual technology listings, this full-time role at Pizza Hut stands out for one reason — it pays $54,000 - $78,000 and trusts you.

Key Responsibilities

• Keep Pizza Hut's Site Reliability Engineering CI under ten minutes so Kearney, NE engineers stay in flow
• Re-architect the technology flow so CloudFormation handles ten times Kearney's current load
• Backfill Terraform Associate test coverage on the riskiest corners of Pizza Hut's codebase
• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable Terraform Associate acceptance criteria
• Ensure code quality through automated linting, testing, and static analysis
• Defend Pizza Hut uptime through the 2 a.m. Kearney pages nobody volunteers for
• Refactor the technology module Pizza Hut has been afraid to touch

What You'll Bring

• The discipline to finish the boring 20% that makes the rest matter
• Demonstrated wins in technology work somewhere near Kearney, NE
• An instinct for prioritization when everything is labeled urgent
• Comfort with full-time arrangements and the rhythms of a learning-obsessed workplace
• The patience to mentor without taking over the keyboard
• The integrity to flag your own mistakes first
• Strong time-management skills and a bias toward action

The story of Pizza Hut is really the story of Kearney, NE betting on a self-directed idea about technology and being proven right. Our Kearney team would rather over-communicate than leave a teammate guessing at midnight.

Pair your Helm with our $54,000 - $78,000, our mentors, our benefits, and our flexible Kearney, NE culture, and the math works in your favor.

This is an open, funded role that we intend to fill in the coming weeks.