Senior AWS DevOps Engineer (Houston, TX)

Location: Houston, TX (Downtown) – Fully Onsite

Duration: 6-Month Contract (W2)

Schedule: Standard Business Hours

Pay Rate: $99.00 – $103.00/hr







Position Summary




Our client, a leading midstream energy company headquartered in Houston, TX, is seeking a senior-level 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.




This is a hands-on, senior role: the ideal candidate can walk through, in detail, how they have used Terraform and GitHub-based pipelines to automate the deployment of both application code and infrastructure — from an application or AI project moving through a pipeline to a live, deployed service. 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. There is strong potential for long-term conversion for the right candidate.







Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation, plus Python and Shell automation) across multi-account AWS environments
• Build, improve, automate, and shift-left CI/CD pipelines using GitHub-based workflows
• Automate the deployment of AWS resources such as EKS, S3, and Lambda through scripted, code-driven provisioning rather than manual console configuration
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot workloads on Kubernetes (EKS); service mesh experience is a strong plus
• Implement, automate, and enforce defined security and compliance policies at the resource and repository level, including future integration with the company's in-development compliance API (secondary priority, not an initial screening focus)
• Integrate pipelines and cloud environments with third-party identity and access management tools
• 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
• Communicate clearly and confidently in a customer-facing capacity with internal stakeholders
• Occasional travel to the West Houston office

Education & Experience

• Senior-level expertise required; must be able to explain, in detail, real projects involving Terraform and GitHub-based deployment of both code and infrastructure
• 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, with demonstrated hands-on depth
• 5+ years supporting Kubernetes and containerized orchestration (must-have for this role)
• 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.)
• AWS architecture certification preferred

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and architecture patterns
• Advanced knowledge of connecting pipelines and cloud environments to third-party identity and access management tools
• Experience with service mesh technologies strongly preferred
• Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and incident-response skills
• Strong communicator, comfortable operating in a customer-facing capacity

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