Senior AWS DevOps / SRE Engineer

Quantum Technologies. LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantum Technologies. LLC seeks an experienced Senior AWS DevOps / SRE Engineer with 8+ years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE. You will design and manage scalable, secure AWS environments, build reliable CI/CD pipelines, and automate operations with Python.

You will troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters, stay ahead of capacity and reliability, and collaborate with security and software teams to uphold high availability and governance standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years IT experience required.
• Strong hands-on AWS expertise.
• Proven DevOps/SRE experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Linux admin.
• Python scripting/automation skills.
• CI/CD pipelines and IaC experience.
• Experience with incident management.
• Experience with cloud networking, security, scalability.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage AWS infrastructure.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized apps.
• Automate operations with Python scripts.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
• Monitor health, performance, and capacity.
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with application developers, security teams, and infrastructure teams.

Skills

8+ years IT

AWS hands-on

DevOps/SRE

Kubernetes

Linux admin

Python scripting

CI/CD pipelines

IaC

Incident management

Cloud networking

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Datadog

Splunk

Ansible

Git

Bash

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior AWS DevOps / SRE Engineer with 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Kubernetes, Linux administration, and Python automation. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining highly available, scalable, secure, and automated cloud environments while improving system reliability and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage highly available infrastructure on AWS.
• Develop and maintain DevOps/SRE practices focused on reliability, scalability, automation, and performance.
• Manage and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications.
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux systems in production environments.
• Develop automation scripts and tools using Python.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Monitor system health, availability, performance, and capacity using observability and monitoring tools.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and production troubleshooting.
• Implement best practices for security, networking, access management, and cloud governance.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks to improve deployment speed and system reliability.
• Collaborate with application developers, architects, security teams, and infrastructure teams.
• Establish and improve SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, alerting, and reliability metrics.
• Support production releases, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and business continuity initiatives.

Mandatory Skills:

• 8+ years of overall IT experience
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS
• Strong DevOps / Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience
• Strong experience with Kubernetes
• Advanced Linux system administration and troubleshooting
• Strong Python scripting/automation skills
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code
• Strong production troubleshooting and incident management experience
• Understanding of cloud networking, security, scalability, and high availability

Preferred Skills:

• Terraform / CloudFormation
• Docker / containerization
• Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or similar
• Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, Splunk, or similar monitoring tools
• AWS services such as EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, RDS
• Ansible
• Git
• Bash/Shell scripting
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices
• Experience with observability, performance tuning, and capacity management

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.