DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer Location: Dallas, TX (Onsite) Duration: 12+ Months Must have skills: • Golang • Terraform • Ansible In this role, you will: • Lead complex initiatives to develop infrastructure to provide solutions for business applications • Architect and develop reusable, modular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) components using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Crossplane. • Design and implement GitOps-driven workflows that enable automated provisioning, deployment, and lifecycle management of cloud infrastructure. • Build and maintain self-service platform capabilities that empower developers to manage infrastructure independently through intuitive interfaces and APIs. • Lead the integration of infrastructure automation with tools such as ArgoCD, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools (Tekton, GitHub Actions) to streamline developer experience. • Define and enforce infrastructure standards and golden paths that promote consistency, security, and scalability. • Collaborate with platform, security, and application teams to align infrastructure automation with business and engineering goals. • Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and mentor other engineers on best practices in infrastructure automation. • Continuously evaluate and improve the performance, reliability, and maintainability of infrastructure tooling and workflows. Required Qualifications: • 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education • 3 + years of experience with Terraform, Ansible, Crossplane or similar IaC tools • 3 + years of experience with GitOps principles and experience with tools like ArgoCD, Tekton, or GitHub Actions • 2 + years of experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and hybrid cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) • 2+ years of experience with designing and consuming RESTful APIs (Golang, Python) and integrating infrastructure automation into platform services Desired Qualifications: • Experience with Crossplane or other control plane abstraction tools • Familiarity with developer portals (e.g., Backstage) and CI/CD pipelines • Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) • Exposure to image management tools like Packer or Image Builder • Background in building platform engineering solutions that support cloud-native development and service ownership • Knowledge of observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack) • A developer-first mindset with a passion for reducing friction and improving engineering productivity