Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS & Terraform)
Location: Plano, TX (Local candidates only) - Onsite
Duration: Long Term
Experience Required: 12+ Years
Job Description:
Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong background in designing, automating, and optimizing cloud infrastructures on AWS, using Terraform as the core Infrastructure-as-Code tool. This role requires someone who has led cloud transformation initiatives, implemented CI/CD pipelines end-to-end, and worked extensively with containerization and orchestration platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect, automate, and manage AWS cloud environments using Terraform for IaC.
- Build and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines supporting rapid and reliable deployments.
- Implement advanced monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks to ensure system reliability.
- Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to enforce DevOps best practices.
- Optimize infrastructure for cost, performance, security, and high scalability.
- Lead troubleshooting, incident resolution, and root-cause analysis for cloud and deployment issues.
- Mentor junior engineers and guide teams on DevOps standards, automation strategies, and cloud patterns.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 12+ years of total IT experience with strong DevOps specialization.
- Deep hands-on expertise with AWS services, cloud networking, security, and automation.
- Strong proficiency in Terraform, modules, workflows, and reusable IaC patterns.
- Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, etc.).
- Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, Shell).
- Experience with monitoring/observability tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).
- Strong communication, documentation, and cross-team collaboration skills