DevOps Engineer

TechDoQuest; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

TechDoQuest in Plano, TX is seeking a highly skilled AWS DevOps Engineer to design and operate scalable cloud infrastructure, automate deployments, and strengthen security and reliability across environments.

You will collaborate with development, architecture, security, and support teams to implement IaC, container orchestration with AWS EKS, and robust monitoring, ensuring production systems meet uptime targets.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of DevOps experience.
• 4+ years of AWS cloud experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale applications.
• Experience implementing CI/CD best practices.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation frameworks.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain AWS infrastructure.
• Provision and manage cloud resources across AWS environments.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization, performance, and cost management.
• Support multi-environment deployments including Development, QA, UAT, and Production.
• Deploy and manage applications using Docker, AWS EKS.
• Troubleshoot containerized applications and monitor health.
• Implement monitoring and incident response practices.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

CI/CD

Troubleshooting

Communication

Automation

On-call

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Shell Scripting

Python

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled AWS DevOps Engineer to support cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, application deployment, monitoring, and operational excellence initiatives. The engineer will work closely with development, architecture, security, and support teams to build scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions.

The ideal candidate will possess strong hands-on experience in AWS, Infrastructure as Code, containerization, Kubernetes, deployment automation, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain AWS infrastructure.
• Provision and manage cloud resources across AWS environments.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization, performance, and cost management.
• Support multi-environment deployments including Development, QA, UAT, and Production.

Infrastructure as Code

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using:
• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• Automate environment provisioning and configuration management.
• Implement reusable infrastructure modules and templates.
• Build and maintain automated deployment pipelines.
• Implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices.
• Support automated testing and deployment workflows.
• Enhance release management processes.
• Deploy and manage applications using:
• Docker
• AWS EKS
• Support container orchestration and cluster administration.
• Troubleshoot containerized application issues.

Monitoring & Observability

• Implement monitoring solutions and operational dashboards.
• Configure alerts and incident notification mechanisms.
• Analyze system performance and troubleshoot infrastructure issues.
• Maintain availability, reliability, and scalability standards.

Security & Compliance

• Implement IAM policies and security controls.
• Support vulnerability remediation and compliance initiatives.
• Participate in DevSecOps implementation.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise security standards.

Production Support

• Support application deployments and release activities.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Participate in incident management and root cause analysis.
• Provide on-call support as needed.

Required Technical Skills

AWS Services

Strong hands-on experience with:

• EC2
• S3
• IAM
• CloudWatch
• Lambda
• VPC
• Route 53
• RDS
• Secrets Manager
• SNS/SQS
• EKS
• ECS

DevOps & Automation

• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• Shell Scripting
• Python

Container Technologies

• Docker
• AWS EKS

Monitoring Tools

• CloudWatch
• Splunk
• Grafana
• ELK Stack

Source Control

• Git
• GitHub
• Bitbucket

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of DevOps experience.
• 4+ years of AWS cloud experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale applications.
• Experience implementing CI/CD best practices.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation frameworks.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial Services or Banking domain experience.
• AWS Solutions Architect Certification.
• Experience with:
• Kafka
• Microservices
• API Platforms
• OpenShift
• Dynatrace
• ServiceNow
• Experience supporting 24x7 production environments.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.