Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS/GCP, Terraform, CI/CD

Artifintech; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 84,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Artifintech is seeking a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer in Houston to lead Terraform-based deployments across AWS and GCP. You'll architect and automate provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and secure, observable environments for customer workloads.

The role emphasizes infrastructure and platform engineering, with experience in IAM, secrets, and cost optimization. Requires 7–10 years IT, 5+ in DevOps/SRE, and relevant certs.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of IT experience with at least 5 years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering.
• Hands-on Terraform experience on AWS and GCP.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and GCP provisioning and operations.
• Experience with AWS CDK, Google Cloud Build, and AWS CodePipeline.
• IAM, secrets management, networking, and cloud security expertise.
• Understanding of cloud landing zones and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.
• Exposure to vector databases, search indexes, and RAG/knowledge pipeline infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Google Vertex AI and AWS Bedrock infrastructure.
• AWS DevOps/SysOps or Google Cloud DevOps certifications preferred.
• Experience deploying contact-center or conversational AI platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform across AWS and GCP.
• Automate cloud resource provisioning, service enablement, networking, IAM, secrets management, and logging.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for controlled deployment and promotion of pre-built packages and customer configurations.
• Provision and manage infrastructure for RAG and knowledge pipelines, including document stores, vector databases, search indexes, and indexing jobs.
• Implement automated environment creation, updates, backups, snapshots, and teardown processes.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, logging, and dashboards for operational readiness.
• Manage cloud security through IAM policies, secrets managers, private networking, and audit logging.
• Collaborate with architects, application specialists, and data engineers to translate designs into deployment modules.
• Optimize cloud costs through budgets, tagging, labels, and idle-environment management.

Skills

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

GCP

AWS CDK

Vertex AI

AWS Bedrock

IAM

Secrets management

Networking

Cloud security

RAG pipelines

Vector databases

Search indexes

CI/CD tooling (CodePipeline)

Tools

Google Cloud Build

AWS CodePipeline

Job description

Artifintech is seeking a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer in Houston to lead Terraform-based deployments across AWS and GCP. You'll architect and automate provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and secure, observable environments for customer workloads.

The role emphasizes infrastructure and platform engineering, with experience in IAM, secrets, and cost optimization. Requires 7–10 years IT, 5+ in DevOps/SRE, and relevant certs.