Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer - Hybrid, FinOps

ESG Global Ltd; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

ESG Global Ltd. is seeking a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer to lead design, implementation, and optimization of scalable cloud and on-prem infrastructure. You will mentor engineers, drive automation, and own complex cloud initiatives from design through production.

The role requires deep hands-on expertise in cloud platforms, virtualization, IaC, monitoring, and cost optimization in hybrid environments. This is a hybrid position with 2-3 days on-site at our Houston office.

Qualifications

• 7-8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and automation of reliable CI/CD pipelines.
• Architect cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure using IaC.
• Drive automation across provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and recovery.
• Design and maintain observability platforms with Datadog.
• Establish monitoring, SLOs, and alerting to improve reliability.
• Own cloud cost efficiency and FinOps initiatives.
• Implement configuration management with Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Manage VMware environments for HA, scale, and performance.
• Serve as senior escalation point for production incidents and RCA.
• Partner with security to enforce infra security and compliance.
• Lead disaster recovery planning, testing, and continuous improvement.
• Perform capacity planning and cost analysis; mentor engineers.

Skills

Cloud architecture

CI/CD expertise

Leadership

Mentoring

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Git

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

ESG Global Ltd. is seeking a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer to lead design, implementation, and optimization of scalable cloud and on-prem infrastructure. You will mentor engineers, drive automation, and own complex cloud initiatives from design through production.

The role requires deep hands-on expertise in cloud platforms, virtualization, IaC, monitoring, and cost optimization in hybrid environments. This is a hybrid position with 2-3 days on-site at our Houston office.