Senior Cloud & DevOps Architect - Hybrid Role

ESG; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ESG is seeking a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer to lead design, implementation, and optimization of scalable cloud and on-prem infrastructure. You will mentor engineers, influence architecture, and drive automation, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency in a hybrid environment.

The role requires hands-on expertise across AWS/Azure/GCP, VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes, with Terraform or CloudFormation for IaC and a strong bias toward FinOps.

Qualifications

• 7-8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• 5+ years designing and operating complex enterprise environments across Windows, Linux, and SQL-based systems.
• Strong expertise with Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with VMware and container platforms: Docker/Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, and/or Go.
• Experience implementing observability and monitoring with Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Architect, implement, and maintain cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
• Drive automation across provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and recovery processes.
• Design, implement, and maintain observability platforms, with a focus on Datadog for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
• Establish monitoring, SLOs, and alerting to improve reliability and reduce MTTR.
• Own and optimize cloud cost efficiency with cost controls.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute to technical standards and documentation.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams and operating runbooks.

Skills

Cloud architecture

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting

Cloud platforms

VMware

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Datadog

FinOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Datadog

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

ESG is seeking a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer to lead design, implementation, and optimization of scalable cloud and on-prem infrastructure. You will mentor engineers, influence architecture, and drive automation, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency in a hybrid environment.

The role requires hands-on expertise across AWS/Azure/GCP, VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes, with Terraform or CloudFormation for IaC and a strong bias toward FinOps.