DevOps Engineer III

THIS JOB DESCRIPTION WAS CREATED BY AI, REVIEW BEFORE POSTING Position: DevOps Engineer III Location: Houston, Texas Duration: Contract Job ID: 179616 Job Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer III to join our team in Houston, Texas. This role requires a senior-level professional with extensive AWS production support and engineering experience, advanced Terraform expertise, and a strong background in container platforms and Kubernetes/EKS. The ideal candidate will demonstrate operational maturity, leadership, and excellent communication skills. This is a hybrid position requiring on-site presence in Houston from Tuesday to Thursday. Responsibilities: Provide senior-level AWS production support and engineering, including troubleshooting and improving production workloads on AWS services such as ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, IAM, networking, logging, and monitoring. Design, develop, debug, and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure for AWS at an enterprise scale, including reusable modules and state management. Contribute to module design, code reviews, standards documentation, and reusable patterns for AWS services. Manage and maintain Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests for repeatable application and platform deployments. Lead or significantly contribute to production deployments, upgrades, incident resolution, and operational support for Kubernetes/EKS-based platforms. Deploy and troubleshoot distributed applications using Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, or EKS, including service discovery, ingress/load balancing, network policies, and logging/monitoring integration. Implement GitOps or CI/CD-driven deployment patterns using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Harness, Argo CD, or Flux. Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, improve operational standards, and produce clear runbooks, design notes, and support documentation. Demonstrate operational maturity, including observability, incident response, change management, security hardening, automation, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement of platform reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency. Qualifications: 7+ years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure experience, with at least 5 years supporting AWS production workloads. Preferred certification: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional or AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional. Associate-level certification may be considered with strong hands-on senior experience. 5+ years of advanced Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience, including designing, developing, debugging, and maintaining Terraform-based infrastructure for AWS. 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes or Amazon EKS experience in production environments. Preferred certification: Certified Kubernetes Administrator or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer. Strong understanding of Terraform execution plans, state management, resource dependencies, module versioning, and promotion of infrastructure changes through controlled environments. Experience with automated validation testing and CI/CD integration for infrastructure changes. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to various stakeholders. Ability to take ownership of ambiguous production issues and drive reliable solutions. About PTR Global: PTR Global is a leading provider of information technology and workforce solutions. PTR Global has become one of the largest providers in its industry, with over 5000 professionals providing services across the U.S. and Canada. For more information visit At PTR Global, we understand the importance of your privacy and security. We NEVER ASK job applicants to: Pay any fee to be considered for, submitted to, or selected for any opportunity. Purchase any product, service, or gift cards from us or for us as part of an application, interview, or selection process. Provide sensitive financial information such as credit card numbers or banking information. Successfully placed or hired candidates would only be asked for banking details after accepting an offer from us during our official onboarding processes as part of payroll setup. Pay Range: $55 - $57 The specific compensation for this position will be determined by several factors, including the scope, complexity, and location of the role, as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials, and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and 401K contributions, as well as PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by applicable state or localities where you reside or work. 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