AI Engineer

• Location:
  
  Irving, TX
• Employment Type:
  
  Full-Time (W2 only)
• Work Model: 5 days a week onsite
• Compensation:
  Base salary range of $110,000-$140,000 per year, plus benefits
• Experience Range:
  Min 8+ Years and Max 25 Years
• Work Authorization:
  Who can work on a full-time W2 basis without sponsorship
• This role is not open for C2C/C2H/1099 or any contract arrangements
• This opportunity is available for candidates who can work on a full-time W2 basis without sponsorship.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Dev Ops 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.

• 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 GCP 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 Dev Sec Ops  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 Open Shift 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 & Git Ops Establish IaC standards across the organization. Drive Git Ops adoption for all infrastructure and application configuration changes, ensuring auditability and repeatability.
• Mentor & Lead Technical Direction Define Dev Ops standards, conduct platform design reviews, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with architects, security teams, and engineering leads to align platform strategy with business goals.

• CI/CD & Build Systems
• Jenkins
• Git Hub Actions
• ArgoCD
• Tekton
• CircleCI
• Maven / Gradle / npm build integration
• Release Automation & Versioning Strategies
• Docker
• Open Shift
• Operators & Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)
• Pod Security Standards
• Cluster Lifecycle Management
• AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, SQS, SNS, Route
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• GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, VPC)
• Infrastructure as Code & Git Ops
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Cloud Formation
• Crossplane
• Packer
• Observability & Monitoring
• Grafana
• Open Telemetry
• ELK Stack
• Loki / Fluentd / Fluentbit
• Jaeger / Zipkin (Distributed Tracing)
• Pager Duty / Alert manager
• SLO / SLI / Error Budget Management
• Google Cloud Observability
• Storage
• S3
• NAS
• EFS
• EBS
• Dev Sec Ops  & Security
• DAST Tools (OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite)
• Secrets Scanning
• Hashi Corp Vault
• mTLS & Certificate Management
• RBAC & Identity-Aware Proxy
• Networking & Service Delivery
• DNS & Load Balancing (Nginx, HAProxy, AWS ALB/NLB)
• CDN (Cloudflare, AWS Cloud Front)
• Ingress Controllers (Nginx Ingress,…