DevOps Engineer - CI/CD, Kubernetes & Cloud Reliability

Careerscape; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) matching

Generous paid time off

Hybrid schedule

Parental leave

Home office stipend

Professional development reimbursement

Life and disability insurance

Wellness program

Job summary

Careerscape in Austin, TX is recruiting a DevOps Engineer to scale and harden the infrastructure powering their platform. This hybrid role blends software engineering and systems reliability, building CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation that let product teams ship quickly and confidently.

You will design pipelines, tune Kubernetes clusters, and chase root causes of a flaky deploy. You will partner with software engineers to improve reliability, observability, and performance

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions
• Strong experience with AWS and GCP
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Proficiency with Terraform or CloudFormation
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or Go for automation
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and cloud cost optimization
• Strong troubleshooting and incident response leadership
• Hybrid work schedule with flexible hours (benefits described in posting)

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support frequent, reliable software releases
• Manage and scale cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP using infrastructure as code
• Operate and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads in production
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to improve observability and reliability
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response and root cause analysis
• Automate manual operational tasks to reduce toil and improve deployment velocity
• Collaborate with software engineers to improve application deployability and performance
• Enforce infrastructure security best practices, including access controls and secrets management
• Evaluate and adopt new tools to improve platform reliability and scalability
• Document infrastructure, runbooks, and procedures for the engineering team

Skills

CI/CD pipelines design

AWS & GCP expertise

Docker & Kubernetes

IaC (Terraform / CloudFormation)

Automation scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

Monitoring & observability

Incident response leadership

Security & cost optimization

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

AWS

GCP

Job description

Careerscape in Austin, TX is recruiting a DevOps Engineer to scale and harden the infrastructure powering their platform. This hybrid role blends software engineering and systems reliability, building CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation that let product teams ship quickly and confidently.

You will design pipelines, tune Kubernetes clusters, and chase root causes of a flaky deploy. You will partner with software engineers to improve reliability, observability, and performance