AWS DevOps Engineer (Houston, TX)

Location: Houston, TX (Downtown) – Fully Onsite

Duration: 6-Month Contract (W2)

Schedule: Standard Business Hours

Pay Rate: $99.00/hr – $103.00/hr






Position Summary

Our client, a leading midstream energy company headquartered in Houston, TX, is seeking an AWS DevOps/Platform Engineer III to design, build, and operate scalable AWS infrastructure and supporting DevOps processes for AI, Data Science, and Application Engineering workloads across its pipeline, storage, and processing operations. Working under minimal supervision as part of a cross-functional team, this individual will partner closely with Platform, DevOps, and DataOps Engineers across the AWS ecosystem and help lead automation initiatives using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Security as Code (SaC), and CI/CD best practices.






Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) across multi-account AWS environments
• Build, improve, automate, and shift-left CI/CD pipelines
• Implement, automate, and enforce defined security and compliance policies at the resource and repository level
• Support deployment automation across diverse containerized clusters and data platforms
• Support complex pipelines spanning multi-cloud, multi-platform, and on-premises systems
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers
• Initial priority: help automate compliance integrations into CI/CD pipelines and the company's compliance tooling using Terraform
• Automate IaC using Terraform, Python, and Shell
• Occasional travel to the West Houston office

Education & Experience

• 5+ years working in the AWS ecosystem as a DevOps/Platform Engineer, with deep AWS expertise
• 5+ years working with IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• 5+ years supporting Kubernetes and containerized orchestration
• 5+ years scripting/programming with industry-standard languages and tools (Python, Bash, Shell)
• 5+ years of Linux/Unix experience
• 5+ years of code repository experience (GitHub, GitLab, ADO)
• 3+ years supporting CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, etc.)

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and architecture patterns
• Excellent troubleshooting and incident-response skills
• AWS architecture certification preferred
• 5+ years of CI/CD experience with the tools listed above
• 5+ years of experience with GitHub and/or GitLab
• 5+ years of AWS Platform Engineering experience
• Terraform experience
• AWS certification

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