Terraform Cloud DevOps Engineer

Cloud Analytics Technologies, LLC; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud solutions provider is looking for a Terraform Cloud DevOps Engineer in Plano, Texas. The successful candidate will have over 7 years of hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, particularly in using Terraform for automation. Responsibilities include designing cloud infrastructures, collaborating with engineering teams, and driving improvement in deployment processes. The role emphasizes collaboration across various teams to ensure best practices are followed in project execution. Ideal candidates will also have strong security and compliance knowledge in AWS environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience designing and maintaining AWS infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Experience in implementing CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and provision AWS infrastructure for on-prem migrations.
• Drive continuous improvement in processes and methodologies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure solution consistency.

Skills

AWS infrastructure design

Automation with Terraform

CI/CD processes

Security best practices

Networking fundamentals

Education

Graduate degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda)

Job description

Job Title: Terraform Cloud DevOps Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

• Work with cloud infra architectures (AWS) set up for applications.
• Design and provision infrastructure on AWS as part of on‑prem migration or in‑place cloud upgrades.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure capacity planning, monitoring, upgrades, IaC automations using Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD using GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements.
• Solid foundation of networking.
• Work with engineering teams to define best practices and processes supporting the entire infrastructure lifecycle – plan, build, deploy, operate, automate lifecycle activities such as self‑service, orchestration, provisioning, configuration management.
• Define technology roadmaps and infrastructure direction.
• Drive continuous improvement including design and standardization of process and methodologies.
• Assess feasibility, complexity, and scope of new capabilities and solutions.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders/teams (architecture and infrastructure delivery teams) to ensure consistent solution design and integration.
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open‑source technologies and tools.

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• More than 7 years of hands‑on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining AWS infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring automation, consistency, and repeatability.
• Provision, configure, and manage a wide range of AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda) through Terraform.
• Build, secure, and manage CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) to automate deployment of infrastructure and applications, integrating Terraform configurations.
• Implement and enforce DevOps principles, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous monitoring, and infrastructure automation.
• Implement and enforce security best practices for AWS environments and Terraform configurations, ensuring compliance with relevant standards.
• Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to support cloud initiatives and streamline deployment processes.
• Monitor cloud environments, troubleshoot issues, and optimize infrastructure performance and cost.
• Hands‑on experience designing and provisioning infrastructure on AWS Cloud.

Nice to Have Certifications

• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Generic Managerial Skills

• Experience driving continuous improvement, including design and standardization of processes and methodologies.
• Experience assessing feasibility, complexity, and scope of new capabilities and solutions.
• Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders/teams (architecture and infrastructure delivery teams) to ensure consistent solution design and integration.

Recruitment Information

• Years of experience required: 7+ years
• Education requirement: Graduate
• Certifications required: None explicitly, but certifications above are desirable.

CLOUD ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGIES is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. CLOUD ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGIES will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters. Nor will CLOUD ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGIES require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract.