Amazon Web Services (AWS), Automation, Bash Scripting, Capacity Management, Capacity and Performance Management, CentOS, Cloud Computing, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, DNS (Domain Name System), DevOps, Docker, GCP (Good Clinical Practices), Genetics, GitHub, Hardware Virtualization, Incident Management, Incident Response, Jenkins, Linux Administration, Load Balancing, Machine Tool, Metrics, Microsoft Windows Azure, Network Administration/Management, On Call, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Production Systems, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Red Hat Linux Operating System, Reliability Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, Scalable System Development, Software Engineering, State Laws and Regulations, Systems Administration/Management, Team Player, Ubuntu, Virtual Machine (VM), Virtualization
Position Title: DEVOPS & SRE ENGINEER
Location: HOUSTON, TX
FLSA Class: EXEMPT
Responsible to: Directo of Software Engineering
Position Summary: DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to implement and evolve the infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and reliability posture of our systems. Youll work closely with engineering teams to build scalable, observable, and resilient infrastructure while driving a culture of operational excellence.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads in production
- Develop and maintain infrastructureascode using Terraform (or equivalent tooling)
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and reliable deployments
- Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
- Define and track SLIs/SLOs, participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems
- Identify and eliminate toil through automation and selfservice tooling
- Configure and maintain onprem baremetal servers and Linuxbased infrastructure
- Configure, maintain, and optimize virtualized assets
- Collaborate with development teams on system design, capacity planning, and performance optimization
- Participate in oncall rotations and ensure production readiness of new services
Other Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles
- Strong experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure AWS preferred)
- Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production environments
- Proficiency with infrastructureascode tools, particularly Terraform
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
- Solid understanding of monitoring and observability (metrics, logs, traces)
- Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or Go)
- Experience with incident management, SLObased reliability practices, and capacity planning
- Strong Linux systems administration skills (Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, or similar)
- Experience with virtualization platforms including VM provisioning, storage, networking, and cluster management
- Solid understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security fundamentals
Nice to Have:
- Contributions to internal developer platforms or platform engineering initiatives
- Proxmox VE experience
- Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS SA, CKA, etc.)
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
VoltaGrid is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, arrest record, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
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