Senior AWS DevOps / SRE Engineer

Robotic Process Automation LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Robotic Technologies Automation seeks an experienced Senior AWS DevOps/SRE Engineer to design and manage scalable cloud infrastructure in a fast-paced environment. You will lead reliability initiatives, automate operations with Python, and drive CI/CD across teams.

Responsibilities include Kubernetes management, IaC implementation, security hardening, and incident response. A strong background in Linux, cloud services, and observability is required for production excellence.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 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.

Skills

AWS

DevOps / SRE

Kubernetes

Linux admin

Python automation

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Production incident management

Cloud networking & security

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Datadog

Splunk

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.