DevOps & Terraform Consultant

Inherent Technologies, Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Inherent Technologies, Inc. in Houston, TX seeks a DevOps & Terraform Consultant for a 1-year onsite engagement. You will design and implement Terraform-based infrastructure across AWS and Azure, manage Azure SQL databases, and optimize performance while ensuring DR/HA readiness.

Knowledge of CI/CD and Terraform Cloud is essential. You will lead multi-cloud deployments, configure backends, and collaborate with teams to optimize costs and reliability in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Terraform module development for AWS and Azure.
• 5+ years managing Azure SQL cloud ecosystems and related performance tuning.
• Strong understanding of AWS core services and RDS provisioning via IaC.
• Experience with multi-cloud IaC design, state management, and backends.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure across AWS and Azure.
• Administer Azure SQL databases and SQL Managed Instances, monitor health, and tune performance.
• Implement robust backup, DR, and HA strategies (Failover Groups, geo-replication).
• Develop CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps; manage Terraform state and remote backends.
• Execute blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies; manage releases.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

Azure

SQL Administration

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform Cloud

Azure DevOps

Hashicorp Cloud

RDS

Job description

Position: DevOps & Terraform Consultant

Location: Houston, TX *Onsite *

Duration: 1 Year

Job Description:

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): 5+ years of deep, hands-on experience writing production-grade Terraform modules for both AWS and Azure.

Database Expertise: 5+ years of experience managing Azure SQL cloud ecosystems.

AWS Competency: Solid understanding of core AWS services, especially AWS managed databases (RDS) and how to provision these IAC tool Terraform.

Azure Database Administration & Performance Tuning

Manage, maintain, and secure Azure SQL Databases, Azure SQL Managed Instances, and SQL Server on Azure VMs.

Monitor database health, proactively troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, and optimize complex queries, indexes, and execution plans.

Implement and test robust database backup, disaster recovery (DR), and high-availability (HA) strategies (e.g., Failover Groups, Geo-Replication)

New Database seutp and configuration in Azure SQL.

Cost Optimazation in Azure SQL.

Azure Devope & CI/CD Integration:

Azure DevOps Services & Pipelines - author multi-stage YAML pipelines, build/release templates, gated builds, and pipeline variables.

Hands-on with Terraform modular design, state management, and remote backends (Terraform Cloud).

Release Management & Deployment Strategies - blue/green, canary, rolling updates, feature flags, rollback planning.

Experience with Azure Boards, tasks etc.

Experience with managing code repository in Hashicorp Cloud.

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform):

Design, build, and maintain robust infrastructure components on AWS and Azure using Terraform as the primary IaC tool.

Ensure proper Terraform state-file management, backend configuration, and module reusability across multi-cloud environments.

Automate infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and management processes.

Ensure cloud environments are secure, scalable, and reliable.