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

VoltaGrid; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

VoltaGrid seeks a DEVOPS & SRE ENGINEER in Houston, TX to design, deploy, and scale robust cloud infrastructure. You will manage Kubernetes clusters, container workloads, and infrastructure-as-code, enabling rapid, safe releases.

You will build monitoring and incident processes, optimize performance, and collaborate with software teams on capacity planning and reliability. 4+ years of relevant experience and strong scripting are required.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Strong experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure AWS preferred).
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production environments.
• Proficiency with infrastructureascode tools, particularly Terraform.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar).
• Solid understanding of monitoring and observability (metrics, logs, traces).
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or Go).
• Experience with incident management, SLObased reliability practices, and capacity planning.
• Strong Linux systems administration skills (Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, or similar).
• Experience with virtualization platforms including VM provisioning, storage, networking, and cluster management.
• 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 infrastructureascode 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 selfservice tooling.
• Configure and maintain onprem baremetal servers and Linuxbased infrastructure.
• Configure, maintain, and optimize virtualized assets.
• Collaborate with development teams on system design, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Participate in oncall rotations and ensure production readiness of new services.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Linux administration

SRE practices

Scripting (Bash, Python, Go)

Monitoring/ observability

Incident management

Capacity planning

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

VoltaGrid seeks a DEVOPS & SRE ENGINEER in Houston, TX to design, deploy, and scale robust cloud infrastructure. You will manage Kubernetes clusters, container workloads, and infrastructure-as-code, enabling rapid, safe releases.

You will build monitoring and incident processes, optimize performance, and collaborate with software teams on capacity planning and reliability. 4+ years of relevant experience and strong scripting are required.