Senior DevOps Architect: Cloud Platform Automation

Photon; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer in Dallas to own infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud operations. You will build automated, secure platforms using Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, and scripting to enable fast, reliable software delivery.

The role requires 10+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong Linux, cloud, networking, and security fundamentals, and a passion for reliability. Collaboration with development and QA teams is essential to improve deployment agility and operational

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Expert-level hands-on experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, developing, and maintaining Jenkins pipelines.
• Production-level experience managing cloud environments using AWS and/or GCP.
• Proficiency in Docker and containerization technologies.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, cloud security, and access control.
• Strong experience with Linux administration.
• Understanding of infrastructure reliability, monitoring, and operational best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP using Terraform and IaC best practices.
• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
• Containerize applications using Docker and support container-based deployment workflows.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response processes.
• Drive cloud security, access control, cost optimization, and infrastructure reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to streamline build, testing, and release processes.
• Mentor team members and promote DevOps best practices across engineering teams.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Cloud computing

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Linux

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Photon is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer in Dallas to own infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud operations. You will build automated, secure platforms using Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, and scripting to enable fast, reliable software delivery.

The role requires 10+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong Linux, cloud, networking, and security fundamentals, and a passion for reliability. Collaboration with development and QA teams is essential to improve deployment agility and operational