Senior DevOps Engineer, onsite

Ztek Consulting INC

Irving (TX)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Ztek Consulting INC. seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to own enterprise CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling for a regulated financial services environment. You will drive platform reliability, IaC discipline, and security integration across global teams.

Responsibilities include building fast, secure, scalable pipelines, managing AWS/Azure/GCP resources with Terraform and containers, and leading incident reviews and post-mortems to reduce toil and improve resilience.

Qualifications

Extensive hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise CI/CD platforms.
Proven ability to architect scalable cloud infrastructure across multi-cloud environments.
Strong background in platform engineering, IaC discipline, and security integration.

Responsibilities

Own the CI/CD platform design and continuous improvement across multiple squads.
Provision and optimize cloud infrastructure using IaC, across AWS, Azure, GCP.
Define SLOs/SLIs, lead incident response, and enforce security standards within pipelines.

Skills

CI/CD platforms

Cloud infrastructure

Platform engineering

Infrastructure as Code

Security in delivery pipelines

SRE practices

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

ArgoCD

Job description

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer, onsite in Irving, TX- Full-time

Job description: 426688 /CO

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with deep, hands—on expertise in building and operating enterprise—grade CI/CD platforms, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling at global scale. In this role, you will own the design, automation, and reliability of the software delivery pipeline - enabling engineering squads to ship faster, safer, and with greater confidence. You will bring a strong platform engineering mindset, infrastructure—as—code discipline, and a proven track record of reducing toil, improving system resilience, and embedding security into every stage of the software lifecycle in a regulated financial services environment.

Must-Have Technical/Functional Skills

Roles & Responsibilities:

Own the CI/CD Platform Design, build, and continuously improve enterprise CI/CD pipelines. Ensure pipelines are fast, reliable, secure, and scalable across dozens of engineering squads and technology stacks.

Architect & Manage Cloud Infrastructure Provision, manage, and optimize cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP using infrastructure-as-code. Enforce cost controls, security guardrails, and operational best practices at scale.

Drive Platform Reliability & SRE Practices Define and own SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for platform services. Lead incident response, conduct blameless post-mortems, and implement systemic fixes to eliminate recurring failures.

Embed Security into the Delivery Pipeline Implement DevSecOps practices - integrating SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, and secrets detection into every pipeline stage. Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards and regulatory requirements.

Standardize Container & Kubernetes Operations Own the Kubernetes and OpenShift platform strategy - cluster lifecycle management, namespace governance, RBAC, networking policies, and workload autoscaling.

Enable Developer Productivity Build internal developer platforms (IDP), self-service tooling, golden path templates, and reusable infrastructure components that reduce friction and accelerate engineering teams.

Lead Observability & Capacity Planning Design and maintain a unified observability stack covering metrics, logging, and distributed tracing. Drive proactive capacity planning and performance optimization across all environments.

Champion Infrastructure as Code & GitOps Establish IaC standards across the organization. Drive GitOps adoption for all infrastructure and application configuration changes, ensuring auditability and repeatability.

Mentor & Lead Technical Direction Define DevOps standards, conduct platform design reviews, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with architects, security teams, and engineering leads to align platform strategy with business goals.

Technical Skills Required

CI/CD & Build Systems