DevOps & SRE Engineer - Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD

VoltaGrid; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

VoltaGrid is seeking a DevOps & SRE Engineer to design and evolve the infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and reliability posture of our systems. You will collaborate with engineering to build scalable, observable, and resilient infrastructure while promoting operational excellence.

You will manage cloud infrastructure, containerized workloads, and IaC with Terraform, and contribute to monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes and Docker in production environments.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly Terraform.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar).
• Strong Linux systems administration skills (Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, or similar).
• Solid understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads in production.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform (or equivalent tooling).
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and reliable deployments.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar).
• Define and track SLIs/SLOs, participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems.
• Identify and eliminate toil through automation and self-service tooling.
• Configure and maintain on-prem bare-metal servers and Linux-based infrastructure.
• Configure, maintain, and optimize virtualized assets.
• Collaborate with development teams on system design, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Participate in on-call rotations and ensure production readiness of new services.

Skills

Scripting

Incident management

Capacity planning

Linux administration

Networking fundamentals

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

VoltaGrid is seeking a DevOps & SRE Engineer to design and evolve the infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and reliability posture of our systems. You will collaborate with engineering to build scalable, observable, and resilient infrastructure while promoting operational excellence.

You will manage cloud infrastructure, containerized workloads, and IaC with Terraform, and contribute to monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning.