DevOps Engineer

DevOps EngineerLocation: Houston, TX 77002 (2 day Onsite, 3 day REMOTE)Duration: 06 - 12 Months Contract Pay Range: $50-$53/hrKey ResponsibilitiesAWS Production Support: Independently diagnose complex issues, lead root-cause analysis, and drive reliable solutions across AWS services including ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, IAM, networking, logging, and monitoring.Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provision, design, develop, debug, and maintain enterprise-scale Terraform infrastructure. Build reusable modules, manage remote state, review execution plans, troubleshoot drift, and safely apply change automation across environments.Container & Kubernetes Management: Manage and maintain Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests for application and platform deployments. Lead or contribute to production deployments, upgrades, incident resolution, and operational support for EKS/Kubernetes platforms.Deployment & CI/CD Pipelines: Deploy and troubleshoot distributed applications using Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, or EKS (incorporating service discovery, ingress/load balancing, network policies, and logging/monitoring) via GitOps or CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Harness, Argo CD, Flux).Technical Leadership & Documentation: Take ownership of ambiguous production issues, explain technical risks and tradeoffs to leadership and cross-functional teams, mentor junior/mid-level engineers, and produce clear runbooks, design notes, and support documentation.Operational Excellence: Maintain observability, incident response, change management, security hardening, disaster recovery awareness, and continuous improvement of platform reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.Required Qualifications & ExperienceSenior AWS Experience: 7+ years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure experience, including 5+ years supporting, troubleshooting, and improving production workloads on AWS.Terraform Expertise: 5+ years designing, developing, debugging, and maintaining Terraform-based infrastructure for AWS. Must have direct experience provisioning/managing infrastructure using Terraform (not just consuming prebuilt modules) and deep understanding of state management, resource dependencies, module versioning, and policy controls.Container & Kubernetes Depth: 5+ years of experience with containerized workloads and 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes or EKS experience in production environments. Thorough understanding of cluster operations, workload deployment, Helm, kubectl, autoscaling, networking, and IAM/RBAC integration.Skill Level: Senior Level with greater than 8 years of total experience.Preferred CertificationsAWS Certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional OR AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (Associate-level considered with strong senior hands-on experience).Kubernetes Certifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), or equivalent hands-on container platform experienceThe Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time, hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, and paid holidays annually – as applicable. Collabera