Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer (Hybrid) - FinOps Focus

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

Job summary

ESG - USA is seeking a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer to lead design, implementation, and optimization of scalable, secure cloud and on‑prem infrastructure in a hybrid Houston environment. This role partners with development, security, and infra teams to drive automation, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.

The ideal candidate brings 8+ years of hands‑on experience across cloud platforms, virtualization, CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, and cloud FinOps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 7-8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud/Infra Engineering.
• 5+ years designing and operating complex Windows/Linux/SQ L based environments.
• Strong data center, storage, networking, and security experience.
• Hands-on with AWS, Azure, or GCP (AWS preferred).
• Terraform or CloudFormation experience.
• VMware and Docker/Kubernetes in production.
• Scripting with Python/PowerShell/Bash/Go.
• Observability/monitoring with Datadog, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead CI/CD pipeline design and automation with application teams.
• Architect and maintain hybrid cloud infrastructure using IaC.
• Automate provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and recovery processes.
• Build observability platforms and strengthen alerting (Datadog focus).
• Establish monitoring, SLOs, and MTTR reduction strategies.
• Own cloud cost optimization and FinOps initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to standards and docs.

Skills

Cloud platforms

VMware

Docker

Kubernetes

Scripting languages

IaC

CI/CD

Observability

Datadog

Cost optimization

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Git

Datadog

Job description

ESG - USA is seeking a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer to lead design, implementation, and optimization of scalable, secure cloud and on‑prem infrastructure in a hybrid Houston environment. This role partners with development, security, and infra teams to drive automation, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.

The ideal candidate brings 8+ years of hands‑on experience across cloud platforms, virtualization, CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, and cloud FinOps.