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Senior DevOps Engineer NEX

Nex*** · Houston, TX, United States
Houston, TX, United StatesExp: 5+ yrsHybrid
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Houston, TX, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa

Job summary

Design and operate cloud and distributed edge infrastructure supporting application workloads, local data processing, connectivity, and operational systems at remote field locations. Build reusable CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code, manage containerized and virtualized workloads, and improve security, observability, reliability, and incident response across GCP and hybrid environments. The role also provides technical guidance and promotes automation and consistent delivery practices.

Qualifications

  • At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, platform, cloud, SRE, infrastructure engineering, or a related discipline.
  • Hands-on experience operating production infrastructure in GCP.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform or an equivalent.
  • Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or ArgoCD.
  • Linux and Windows administration and troubleshooting skills.
  • Experience with containers and orchestration platforms, preferably GKE and KubeEdge.
  • Experience supporting remote, on-premises, hybrid, or edge infrastructure.
  • Experience with virtualization and infrastructure lifecycle management; Proxmox preferred.
  • Proficiency in Python, Bash, TypeScript, Go, or another scripting or programming language.
  • Understanding of private connectivity, routing, DNS, firewalls, and VPNs.
  • Experience implementing secure identity, access, secrets, and workload authentication practices.
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability.
  • Experience supporting production systems, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
  • Ability to work independently and collaborate across engineering, security, product, and operations teams.
  • Experience mentoring engineers or serving as a technical lead.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate cloud and distributed edge infrastructure.
  • Develop reusable CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure delivery.
  • Provision and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
  • Automate provisioning, deployment, configuration, validation, maintenance, and operational workflows.
  • Manage containerized and virtualized workloads across centralized and remote environments.
  • Improve platform reliability, availability, recoverability, performance, and operational efficiency.
  • Implement secure infrastructure, identity, networking, secrets, and machine-to-machine communication.
  • Build and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability capabilities.
  • Troubleshoot production and field incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
  • Partner with software engineering teams to improve developer productivity and standardize deployment practices.
  • Reduce manual operations through automation and self-service capabilities.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to platform and DevOps standards.

Skills

AnsibleArgo CDAzureAzure DevOpsBashGCPGitHubGitHub ActionsGKEGoLinuxPythonTerraformTypeScriptWindowsGrafanaKubernetesOpenVPNPrometheusProxmoxVMwareWireGuard

Languages

PythonBashTypeScriptGo

Industry

Oil and gas

Relocation

No