Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote – Texas)

Jobgether; Town of Texas (WI); Remote; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment partner is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Texas to lead cloud infrastructure initiatives and mentor engineers. This role will focus on designing modern CI/CD practices, leveraging container technologies, and optimizing scalable solutions. The ideal candidate should possess extensive experience with cloud platforms and IaC principles, particularly with Terraform. The role offers competitive compensation and remote work flexibility within the U.S.

Benefits

Competitive salary range: $140,000 – $150,000

Remote work flexibility

Comprehensive support for diversity, equity, and inclusion

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms like GCP and Azure.
• Deep understanding of containerization technologies like Docker.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using IaC principles.
• Optimize application architecture for scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Lead best practices for observability including logging, monitoring, and alerting.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

GCP

Azure

Docker

Ansible

Go

Job description

Overview

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer in Texas (USA). This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead and shape cloud and CI/CD practices for multiple SaaS products, including web and mobile applications. You will work on designing scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient infrastructure while mentoring and guiding other engineers. The environment values rapid iteration, technical excellence, and innovation, allowing you to influence product development and team workflow. You will leverage modern cloud platforms, containerization technologies, and Infrastructure as Code to streamline development and deployment processes. The position emphasizes problem-solving, system observability, and implementing tools that reduce friction for engineering teams. Ideal candidates thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments and are motivated to make an immediate impact through technical leadership and continuous improvement.

Accountabilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, primarily with Terraform
• Optimize application architecture for scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency across multiple cloud providers (GCP, Azure)
• Lead best practices for observability, including logging, monitoring, and alerting to ensure system health and rapid debugging
• Mentor and guide engineers in technical decisions, workflow improvements, and development practices
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines to support product development teams and reduce manual effort
• Enforce security, performance, and reliability best practices within the infrastructure
• Serve on-call during incident response and troubleshoot infrastructure issues
• Promote adoption of modern dev tools and LLM-assisted workflows to enhance productivity

Requirements

• Senior-level experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms, including GCP and/or Azure
• Deep understanding of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools
• Experience optimizing development workflows and collaborating with product and engineering teams
• Ability to decompose complex problems, lead technical discussions, and make balanced decisions
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; adaptable to change and motivated by challenges
• Knowledge of configuration management using Ansible
• Ability to develop infrastructure tools and services in Go is a plus

Nice to have

• Experience with health & insurance software or SFTP/file transport best practices
• Exposure to incident response and system observability improvement initiatives

Benefits

• Competitive salary range: $140,000 – $150,000
• Remote work flexibility within approved U.S. locations with reliable internet
• Opportunity to mentor and grow technical capabilities across the team
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized environments
• Engaging, fast-paced environment emphasizing rapid iteration and impact
• Collaboration and knowledge-sharing culture with technical autonomy
• Comprehensive support for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace