Lead DevOps Engineer
Lead DevOps Engineer – Dallas, TX (Local to TX Only | In-Person Interview Required)
Location: Dallas, TX (Onsite – Local Texas candidates ONLY)
Interview: Must be available for in-person interview
Visa: US Citizens & Green Card Holders only
Experience: 10+ years (Lead-level)
💼 Job Description
We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer (10+ years experience) to drive platform automation, cloud infrastructure engineering, and CI/CD modernization for large-scale enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on DevOps expertise, strong cloud experience, and a proven track record leading teams, implementing DevOps best practices, and delivering scalable environments.
This is an onsite role in Dallas, TX and requires candidates who are already local to Texas and comfortable with in-person interviews.
🔥 Key Responsibilities
- Lead strategy, architecture, and execution of DevOps initiatives across multiple application teams.
- Design, implement, and optimize enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines end-to-end.
- Architect and manage highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS / Azure / GCP (customizable).
- Drive automation for builds, deployments, testing, monitoring, and security.
- Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
- Oversee containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE).
- Collaborate with dev, QA, and architecture teams to enhance release velocity and stability.
- Establish monitoring, logging, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Datadog, etc.
- Manage production issues, identify root causes, and enforce system reliability best practices.
- Mentor and guide junior and mid-level DevOps engineers in best practices and technical decisions.
🧰 Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or SRE roles.
- Proven Lead-level experience driving DevOps initiatives and leading teams.
- Strong hands-on skills with:
- Cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
- IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
- Scripting: Python, Bash, Shell
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, scalability, and automation.
- Experience supporting large-scale distributed systems and microservices.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills.
💯 Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd).
- Experience in enterprise, financial, healthcare, or telecom environments.
- Cloud certifications (AWS DevOps, CKA/CKAD, Azure DevOps) preferred but not required.
📨 Notes
- Local Texas candidates only (no exceptions).
- Must be willing to attend onsite, in-person interviews.
- US Citizens & Green Card Holders only as per client requirement.
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