AWS DevOps Engineer (Houston only) #953586
- Full Time, onsite
- Dexian
- Hybrid2-4x a month. Candidates must live in the Houston area, United States of America
AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer w/ Harness #953586
Location: Hybrid - 1x/week in Houston, TX 77002
Duration: Initially 5 months with a strong likelihood of extension. This team is growing
Compensation: $58-$63/hr plus benefits and PTO for employees
Benefits: For full-time contract employees benefits include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health saving accounts medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts as well as voluntary life and disability benefits and a 401k plan.
Description:
An AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer is required to have experience with Harness and will interface with application development teams directly to make their implementation on the cloud as easy as possible with stable, clean automation. Cloud DevOps Engineers will need to have strong communication skills to work directly with developers to gather requirements for IaC and Service CI/CD automation. Quick learning and effective question-asking are keys to success at this role.
We absolutely need you to be proficient with Harness so you can help train others with this tool. You are not expected to know all the services we support, but instead are expected to learn quickly and work from existing patterns.
Top 3 Skills
- AWS
- Harness
- GitHub Actions
Required background
- Strong experience working in AWS (additional cloud platforms are nice, but we only really care about AWS)
- Highly proficient with Harness
- GitHub Actions
- Strong communication skills and ability to work through ambiguity with effective question-asking.
- Experience with leveraging automation tooling for CI/CD.
- Application focus:
- Excellent Interpersonal Skills, well organized, and goal-oriented
- Able to manage multiple priorities and deliverables, both short and long-term, in a busy and aggressive environment
- Must be self-motivated and be able to work in a team-oriented environment
Additional environment notes and preferred background skills
- Supporting AWS services like ALB, Route53, IAM, Security Groups, S3
- EKS/Kubernetes management experience, ECS Fargate, Lambda
- AWS CDK
- Cloudformation/Terraform
- Experience building/running pipelines through production and doing operations
- Familiarity with DR and HA principles of architecture
- Experience with any container orchestration tools