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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # DevOps Engineer - **Company:** Ztek Consulting - **Location:** Irving, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Application Configuration Access Protocols, Computing Platforms, Application Release Automation, Microsoft Azure, Burp Suite, Cloud Computing, Software Quality, Computer Networks, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Programming Tools, Domain Name System (DNS), Github, Make (Software), Gradle, HAProxy, Monitoring of Systems, Identity and Access Management, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Apache Maven, Nginx, OpenShift, Peering, Performance Tuning, Windows PowerShell, Role-Based Access Control, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Ansible, Prometheus, Zero Trust Network Access, Runbook, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Software Engineering, SonarQube, Tripwire, Management of Software Versions, Datadog, Circleci, SSL Certificate Management, Data Logging, Pulumi, Scripting, Google Cloud, Load Balancing, Fluentd, Istio, System Availability, Delivery Pipeline, Grafana, Multi-Cloud, AWS Lambda, HybridCloud, Apigee, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Deployment Automation, Google Cloud Functions, Hashicorp, Cloudflare, Build Tools, Linkerd (Service Mesh), Route53, Checkmarx, CIS Benchmarks, Cloud Optimization, Api Gateway, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, New Relic (SaaS), Dynatrace, Devsecops, Docker, Pagerduty, Elk Stack, Jenkins, Static Application Security Testing, Dynamic Application Security Testing - **Published:** August 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/395a0ca0-68d7-452b-b8f7-5aa76d43e7f1 ## About the Role We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with deep, hands-on expertise in building and operating enterprise-grade CI/CD platforms, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling at global scale. In this role, you will own the design, automation, and reliability of the software delivery pipeline enabling engineering squads to ship faster, safer, and with greater confidence. You will bring a strong platform engineering mindset, infrastructure-as-code discipline, and a proven track record of reducing toil, improving system resilience, and embedding security into every stage of the software lifecycle in a regulated financial services environment., * SAST Tools (Checkmarx, SonarQube) * DAST Tools (OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite) * SCA / Dependency Scanning * Container Image Scanning (Trivy, Aqua Security, Twistlock) * Secrets Scanning * HashiCorp Vault * AWS Secrets Manager / Azure Key Vault * mTLS & Certificate Management * RBAC & Identity-Aware Proxy * CIS Benchmarks & STIG Compliance Networking & Service Delivery * DNS & Load Balancing (Nginx, HAProxy, AWS ALB/NLB) * API Gateway (Kong, AWS API Gateway, Apigee) * CDN (Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront) * Ingress Controllers (Nginx Ingress, Traefik) * VPN & Private Connectivity (AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute) * Zero Trust Networking Scripting & Automation * Bash / Shell Scripting * Python (automation, tooling, Lambda functions) * Go (CLI tooling, Kubernetes controllers) * PowerShell * Makefile / Task runners Reliability & SRE Practices * Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Principles * Chaos Engineering (Chaos Monkey, LitmusChaos, Gremlin) * Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning * Runbook Automation * Incident Management (PagerDuty, OpsGenie) * Capacity Planning & Performance Tuning * Blue-Green & Canary Deployment Strategies * Feature Flag Management Developer Platform & Productivity * Internal Developer Platforms (Backstage, Port) * Golden Path Templates & Scaffolding * Self-Service Infrastructure Provisioning * Developer Experience (DX) tooling * Pre-commit hooks & code quality gates ## Description * Own the CI/CD Platform Design, build, and continuously improve enterprise CI/CD pipelines. Ensure pipelines are fast, reliable, secure, and scalable across dozens of engineering squads and technology stacks. * Architect & Manage Cloud Infrastructure Provision, manage, and optimize cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform using infrastructure-as-code. Enforce cost controls, security guardrails, and operational best practices at scale. * Drive Platform Reliability & SRE Practices Define and own SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for platform services. Lead incident response, conduct blameless post-mortems, and implement systemic fixes to eliminate recurring failures. * Embed Security into the Delivery Pipeline Implement DevSecOps practices integrating SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, and secrets detection into every pipeline stage. Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards and regulatory requirements. * Standardize Container & Kubernetes Operations Own the Kubernetes and OpenShift platform strategy cluster lifecycle management, namespace governance, RBAC, networking policies, and workload autoscaling. * Enable Developer Productivity Build internal developer platforms (IDP), self-service tooling, golden path templates, and reusable infrastructure components that reduce friction and accelerate engineering teams. * Lead Observability & Capacity Planning Design and maintain a unified observability stack covering metrics, logging, and distributed tracing. Drive proactive capacity planning and performance optimization across all environments. * Champion Infrastructure as Code & GitOps Establish IaC standards across the organization. Drive GitOps adoption for all infrastructure and application configuration changes, ensuring auditability and repeatability. * Mentor & Lead Technical Direction Define DevOps standards, conduct platform design reviews, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with architects, security teams, and engineering leads to align platform strategy with business goals. Technical Skills Required CI/CD & Build Systems * Jenkins * GitHub Actions * GitLab CI * ArgoCD * Tekton * CircleCI * Maven / Gradle / npm build integration * Pipeline-as-Code * Artifact Management * Release Automation & Versioning Strategies Container & Kubernetes Platforms * Docker * Kubernetes * OpenShift * Helm * Kustomize * Operators & Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) * Kubernetes RBAC & Network Policies * Pod Security Standards * Cluster Lifecycle Management * Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd) Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure * AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, SQS, SNS, Route53) * Google Cloud Platform (GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, VPC) * Multi-cloud & Hybrid Cloud Architecture * Cloud Networking (VPC, peering, transit gateway, private endpoints) * Cloud Cost Optimization & FinOps Infrastructure as Code & GitOps * Terraform * Ansible * Pulumi * CloudFormation * ArgoCD / Flux (GitOps) * Crossplane * Packer * Terragrunt Observability & Monitoring * Prometheus * Grafana * OpenTelemetry * ELK Stack * Loki / Fluentd / Fluentbit * Jaeger / Zipkin (Distributed Tracing) * Datadog / Dynatrace / New Relic * PagerDuty / Alertmanager * SLO / SLI / Error Budget Management * Google Cloud Observability Storage * S3 * NAS * EFS * EBS ## Related Videos - [Enabling automated 1-click customer deployments with built-in quality and security](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/83-enabling-automated-1-click-customer-deployments-with-built-in-quality-and-security) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Post-Quantum Cryptography: Preparing for Q-Day](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100179-post-quantum-cryptography-preparing-for-q-day) - [Rate-limiting using eBPF and Istio: How to protect your SaaS customers from themselves](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100220-rate-limiting-using-ebpf-and-istio-how-to-protect-your-saas-customers-from-themselves) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) - [Get started with securing your cloud-native Java microservices applications](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/123-get-started-with-securing-your-cloud-native-java-microservices-applications) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Now is the time for industrialized software development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/601-now-is-the-time-for-industrialized-software-development) - [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) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers)