Senior AWS DevOps / SRE Engineer

Ethereum Technologies; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethereum Technologies in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps / SRE Engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Linux, and Python automation.

Responsibilities include building highly available AWS architectures, developing automation, managing CI/CD pipelines, and implementing IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible. Strong focus on reliability, security, and incident response.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of IT experience in cloud/DevOps roles.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience.
• Proven Kubernetes administration.
• Proficiency in Python automation.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines.
• IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Develop DevOps/SRE practices focused on reliability and automation.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads.
• Automate tasks with Python and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement IaC using Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible.
• Monitor systems and handle incident response.

Skills

AWS

DevOps / SRE

Kubernetes

Linux administration

Python scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Production troubleshooting

Security & networking basics

High availability

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Datadog

Splunk

AWS CloudWatch

Job description

US Citizen, Green Card, H-1B, OPT-EAD, CPT, Other

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.