Senior AWS DevOps / SRE Engineer

Machine Learning Technologies, LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Machine Learning Technologies, LLC seeks a Senior AWS DevOps/SRE Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure in an on-site Austin environment. You will drive reliability, automation, and performance across CI/CD pipelines and IaC tooling.

Strong expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, and Python is essential to succeed in this role. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement security, SLOs/SLIs, incident response, and capacity planning, ensuring high

Qualifications

• 8+ years of overall IT experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
• Strong DevOps/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.

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 Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Monitor system health, availability, performance, and capacity using observability tools.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and production troubleshooting.
• Implement security, networking, access management, and cloud governance best practices.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks to improve deployment speed and reliability.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Establish and improve SLOs/SLIs/SLAs and alerting.

Skills

AWS

DevOps/SRE

Kubernetes

Linux

Python

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Incident management

Networking & security

High availability

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

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.