Senior DevOps Engineer - 671

Open for Irving, TX as well

Position’s Contributions to Work Group

:

• In this role, you will lead our containerization strategy, build enterprise-grade automation workflows utilizing GitHub Actions, and manage our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) lifecycle to ensure high availability, optimal performance, and cost efficiency.

Typical task breakdown

CI/CD & GitHub Actions Automation

• Workflow Architecture: Design, build, and optimize matrixed, self-hosted, or cloud-hosted GitHub Actionsworkflows for continuous integration and automated testing.
• Reusable Infrastructure: Build and maintain version-controlled custom GitHub Actions and reusable workflow templates to standardize pipelines across multiple engineering teams.
• Secret Management: Manage secure environment variables, contexts, and deployment keys using GitHub Secrets, Environments, and integrations with AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault.
• Secure Delivery: Implement OpenID Connect (OIDC) to authenticate GitHub Actions runners natively with AWS IAM, eliminating long-lived credentials

.

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration

• Cluster Management: Design, deploy, and maintain multi-cluster production

AWS EKS and Kubernetes environments.

• Upgrades & Maintenance: Execute seamless, zero-downtime cluster upgrades, patch releases, and routine maintenance node recycling.
• Autoscaling & Cost Optimization: Configure and tune cluster autoscaling using tools like Karpenter or Cluster Autoscaler, alongside horizontal/vertical pod autoscaling (HPA/VPA).
• Package Management: Build, maintain, and version control internal Helm charts for streamlined application delivery.

AWS Infrastructure & Automation

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provision and manage 100% of cloud resources using Terraform or AWS CDK to maintain strict environment consistency.
• Cloud Architecture: Administer core AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Route53, and RDS platforms.
• Scripting & Tooling: Write clean, maintainable automation scripts using Python and Bash to eliminate manual interventions.

GitOps & Release Management

• GitOps Adoption: Implement and maintain GitOps-driven deployment frameworks utilizing tools like ArgoCD or Flux to sync EKS state with source repositories.
• Container Registry: Oversee Docker container builds, multi-stage layering, and registry vulnerability management via AWS ECR, triggered natively via GitHub Actions runner hooks.

Networking, Security, & DevSecOps

• Cloud Networking: Manage sophisticated container networking interfaces (VPC CNI) and advanced ingress routing controllers (ALB, NGINX, or Traefik).
• Access Control: Enforce security guardrails utilizing AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) to grant fine-grained pod permissions.

Interaction with team

:

• Team consists of 6 folks

Education & Experience Required:

• Degree is not required but 5+ years

Required Technical Skills

(Required)

· DevOps Experience:

5+ years

of professional experience in dedicated DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or cloud infrastructure roles.

· CI/CD Expertise:

3+ years

of heavy practical experience writing, testing, and modularizing complex

GitHub Actions workflows

.

· AWS Core:

5+ years

of hands-on expertise architecture-focused workflows across major AWS services.

· Kubernetes Core:

3+ years

of deep technical experience specifically running production-grade workloads on

Amazon EKS

, including advanced troubleshooting.

· Automation:

Expert proficiency with

Terraform

and at least one scripting language (

Python

or

Bash

).

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), CKAD, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.
• Runner Administration: Experience managing scaling policies for enterprise-scale GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on Kubernetes (e.g., using Actions Runner Controller - ARC).