Senior AWS DevOps/Platform Engineer III

Location : 1100 Louisiana St., Houston, TX, 77002

INTERVIEW PROCESS

• 30-minute MS Teams 1 st screening
• Onsite in-person 2 nd interview (Candidates must be able to do 2 nd interview onsite within 2-4 business days of successful MS Teams interview)

Do not submit candidates who are Azure centric

Do not submit candidates who have not been exclusive to AWS the past 3-years.

Do not submit multi-AWS/Azure/GCP candidates

Candidates need to avoid using "buzz words" on their resumes. Manager is seeking senior level AWS expertise and someone who can describe step-by-step things like during the 2nd ONSITE/Final interview:

• How to automate infrastructure deployments
• Using Terraform, IaC, GitHub deployments
• Cloud Ops (AWS)

Job Description

Senior (Level III) DevOps/Platform Engineer to design, build and operate scalable AWS Infrastructure and related DevOps for AI, Data Science, and Application engineering workloads.

• On-site, 5 days a week (1/2 every Friday). No remote work. Downtown office.
• Occasional travel to the West Houston office is preferred but not required

You will help drive automation initiatives utilizing IaC, SaC, and CI/CD best-practices techniques.

TOP DAILY PRIORITIES:

Initially will be tasked to help automate Compliance integrations into the CI/CD pipelines and the company compliance tool with Terraform .

Automate IaC with Terraform and Python and Shell scripting

Other Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) across multi-account AWS environments.
• Build, improve, automate and shift-left CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement, automate, and enforce defined Security & Compliance policies at the resource/repository level.
• Understand and support deployment automation into diverse containerized clusters and data platforms.
• Support complicated pipelines involving multi-cloud, multi-platform, and on-premises systems.
• Mentor mid-level/junior engineers.

Requirements

• Excellent verbal communication skills is required
• 5+ years working in the AWS ecosystem as a DevOps/Platform engineer , deep AWS expertise .
• 5+ years working with IaC tools like, Terraform or CloudFormation.
• 5+ years supporting Kubernetes and containerized orchestration.
• 5+ years scripting/programming with industry standard languages/tools (Python, Bash, Shell).
• 5+ years Linux/Unix experience.
• 5+ years code repository experience (GitHub, GitLab, ADO).
• 3+ years supporting CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, etc).
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and architecture patterns.
• Excellent troubleshooting and incident-response skills.
• AWS architecture certification is preferred.