Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD Leader

Instant Alliance, LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 68,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

Instant Alliance, LLC in Houston, TX seeks a senior-level technical leader to drive platform reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency. You will own ambiguous production issues, communicate technical risks to leadership, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers while continuously improving operational standards.

The role requires 7+ years in DevOps/SRE/enterprise cloud, strong AWS experience (ECS/EKS/S3/Lambda/IAM), and Terraform/Kubernetes expertise.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure experience.
• 5+ years supporting, troubleshooting, and improving production workloads on AWS.
• Independently diagnose complex issues, lead root-cause analysis, and drive reliable solutions.
• Deep expertise across AWS services: ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, IAM, networking, logging, and monitoring.
• Preferred: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (Professional) or AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional).

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Cloud infrastructure

AWS

Kubernetes

Containerization

GitOps

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

EKS

S3

Lambda

IAM

Job description

Instant Alliance, LLC in Houston, TX seeks a senior-level technical leader to drive platform reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency. You will own ambiguous production issues, communicate technical risks to leadership, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers while continuously improving operational standards.

The role requires 7+ years in DevOps/SRE/enterprise cloud, strong AWS experience (ECS/EKS/S3/Lambda/IAM), and Terraform/Kubernetes expertise.