Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes & Secure Infra

Allen Control Systems; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ACS Equity Package

Health, Dental, Vision Insurance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Allen Control Systems in Austin, TX is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to own AWS-based production infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters for a fast-moving defense engineering team. You will design, deploy, and operate scalable environments with IaC (Terraform), secure secrets management, and robust access controls to balance velocity with security.

You will collaborate closely with engineering to build reliable deployment pipelines, improve observability with Prometheus/Grafana, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of DevOps/Infrastructure Engineering experience with production systems.
• Hands-on AWS architecture, deployment and management of core services.
• Production Kubernetes design, deployment, and upgrades.
• Advanced Terraform modules for multi-environment IaC.
• Strong networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS/PKI, routing, load balancing.
• Experience with least-privilege access controls and secrets management.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage production workloads on AWS including core services.
• Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters and related networking.
• Author and maintain Terraform modules for IaC across environments.
• Own access controls and secrets management using Vault or AWS Secrets Manager.
• Own production systems at scale, focusing on reliability and incident response.
• Partner with engineering to build deployment pipelines and secure delivery.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Networking fundamentals

Secrets management

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Terraform

Vault

AWS Secrets Manager

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Allen Control Systems in Austin, TX is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to own AWS-based production infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters for a fast-moving defense engineering team. You will design, deploy, and operate scalable environments with IaC (Terraform), secure secrets management, and robust access controls to balance velocity with security.

You will collaborate closely with engineering to build reliable deployment pipelines, improve observability with Prometheus/Grafana, and