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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead DevOps Engineer - **Company:** QuEST Global - **Location:** Spring, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $110,000.0 - $130,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Server Applications, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Databases, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Monitoring of Systems, Web Servers, Identity and Access Management, Release Management, Ansible, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), SONAR (Symantec), Load Balancing, Amazon ElastiCache, System Availability, Grafana, Caching, Reliability of Systems, Git, Amazon Relational Database Service, Low Latency, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Software Coding, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Splunk, Aws Iot, Programming Languages - **Published:** August 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=16b16044b7a35e60 ## About the Role * Experience as Devops for large cloud native applications * Communication: Effective communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams. * Manage your own time and work well both independently and as part of a team * Good understanding of Agile processes * Experience in code development in at least one high-level programming language. * System Administration: Familiarity with Operating Systems and networking. * Cloud Platforms: Extensive experience on AWS platform - EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SNS/SQS, Kubernetis, ElastiCache, Lambda, AWS IOT, Kinesis. Experience with multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking. * Monitoring Tools: Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools : Grafana and Splunk. * Automation: should be comfortable with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible). * Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills to troubleshoot complex issues. * Deployments Know-How : CI/CD, pods management, Sonar Q, Git, etc * Experience on enterprise level device manageability and SaaS solutions. * Some experience on Gen-AI and other AI related capabilities to enhance monitoring tools. ## Description DevOps Engineer will be responsible to build, manage, and automate our Workforce Experience Platform infrastructure. You will be working with engineering teams and focusing on AWS infrastructure and automation. You will also contribute to track and enhance system resilience and overall reliability of the system. Technical Capabilities: * Automating Tasks: Designing, maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes. Design and Write code to automate repetitive tasks, such as provisioning new servers or managing configurations. * Troubleshooting Outages: When incidents occur, dive into troubleshooting, identifying root causes, and resolving issues promptly. * On-Call Responsibilities: participate in on-call rotations, ensuring 24/7 availability and rapid response to incidents. * Monitoring and Observability: They set up monitoring systems, track key metrics, and respond proactively to anomalies. * Capacity Planning: analyze system capacity, predict resource needs, and optimize infrastructure. * Deployment and Release Management: Deployment, automation, management, configuration and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system. Process Capabilities: * Change Management: oversee how code is deployed, configured, and monitored. * Availability and Latency: focus on maintaining high availability and low latency for services. * Emergency Response: incident management, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact. * Capacity Management: assess system capacity, scaling resources as needed. * Documentation: document processes, best practices, and incident resolutions. * Collaboration: They work closely with development teams, fostering collaboration and shared responsibility., You must be able to commute to and from the location with your own transportation arrangements to meet the required working hours. ## Related Videos - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Our journey with Spring Boot in a microservice architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/511-our-journey-with-spring-boot-in-a-microservice-architecture) - [How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1236-how-a-small-team-shrank-a-microsoft-monorepo-by-94) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [We adopted DevOps and are Cloud-native, Now What?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/485-we-adopted-devops-and-are-cloud-native-now-what) - [Git for Code Reviews](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/429-git-for-code-reviews) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [7 Cloud Computing Trends Coming in 2025 for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/412-7-cloud-computing-trends-coming-in-2025-for-developers) - [DevOps Engineer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/203-devops-engineer-salary-2023) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline)