Lead DevOps Engineer (GovCloud)

Lead DevOps Engineer (GovCloud)
Location: onsite in Houston, TX
Duration: 12 Months

Rate is $55hr., all-inclusive (YES WE KNOW THE RATE IS LOW)



Work Authorization: U.S. Citizen Only (No Dual Citizenship)

To ensure you're set up for success, you will bring the following skillset & experience:

• 10+ years of experience building and operating SaaS products in production environments. Will look at 8+ but their leadership must be on point.

• Strong hands-on background in SRE, DevOps, and Cloud Engineering (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Demonstrated experience handling production incidents, rollbacks, postmortems, and long-term reliability improvements.

• Deep experience with CI/CD systems and automated testing frameworks, with a strong bias toward test automation over manual processes.

• Proven ability to design and maintain automation and integration tests for distributed cloud-native systems.

• Experience managing multiple active versions of SaaS products in production.

• Strong debugging skills across services, infrastructure, and pipelines.

• Practical experience with containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving environments with real production consequences.

• Direct, accountable leadership style with comfort owning operational outcomes.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

Plus:

• Formal SRE or cloud certifications (must show/have Github, or live links)

Here's my honest take on who they will choose:

• Along with the certs:

• Experience with enterprise workflow orchestration and automation technologies, particularly Control-M , is highly preferred.

• Additional experience with Agentic AI, Generative AI, LLMs, AI-enabled automation, intelligent agents, or AI-driven workflow orchestration is a significant plus.

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MANDATORY SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

(No exceptions - incomplete submissions will be deleted; no tables, no truncated emails, no script, etc.)

For quick screening and submission, please email me ALL of the following details:

1. First and Last name as it appears on your passport:

2. REQUIRED: Anything we should know about you for presentation (this is your sales pitch):

3. Reason you are looking for a change (detailed explanation):

4. Comm skills (1-10):

5. US Work Status (must be a USC):

6. Resume in MS Word:

7. Education and pertinent certs - degree, year, university:

7b Formal SRE or cloud certifications (must show/have Github, or live links)

1. Availability to start (onsite):

2. Hourly rate, all-inclusive (1099 or C2C only at this time):

3. Email and phone number:

4. LinkedIn Profile (must have Professional headshot -no banner):

5. Current location (city & state):

6. TEAMS/video interview availability (PST timings):

7. Two Professional MANAGER references with all details

   • Full name:

   • Phone number:

   • Professional email:

   • Project name:

   • Reporting relationship / work performed together: