DevOps Engineer III

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Dev Ops Engineer III

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Houston, Texas Duration:
Contract Job  Job Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Dev Ops Engineer III to join our team in Houston, Texas. This role requires a senior-level professional with extensive AWS production support and engineering experience, advanced Terraform expertise, and a strong background in container platforms and Kubernetes/EKS. The ideal candidate will demonstrate operational maturity, leadership, and excellent communication skills. This is a hybrid position requiring on-site presence in Houston from Tuesday to Thursday.

Responsibilities:
Provide senior-level AWS production support and engineering, including troubleshooting and improving production workloads on AWS services such as ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, Document DB, DynamoDB, IAM, networking, logging, and monitoring. Design, develop, debug, and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure for AWS at an enterprise scale, including reusable modules and state management. Contribute to module design, code reviews, standards documentation, and reusable patterns for AWS services.

Manage and maintain Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests for repeatable application and platform deployments. Lead or significantly contribute to production deployments, upgrades, incident resolution, and operational support for Kubernetes/EKS-based platforms. Deploy and troubleshoot distributed applications using Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, or EKS, including service discovery, ingress/load balancing, network policies, and logging/monitoring integration. Implement Git Ops or CI/CD-driven deployment patterns using tools such as Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins, Harness, Argo CD, or Flux.

Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, improve operational standards, and produce clear runbooks, design notes, and support documentation. Demonstrate operational maturity, including observability, incident response, change management, security hardening, automation, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement of platform reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications:

7+ years of hands-on Dev Ops, SRE, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure experience, with at least 5 years supporting AWS production workloads. Preferred certification: AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer
- Professional or AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- Professional. Associate-level certification may be considered with strong hands-on senior experience. 5+ years of advanced Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience, including designing, developing, debugging, and maintaining Terraform-based infrastructure for AWS. 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes or Amazon EKS experience in production environments. Preferred certification:
Certified Kubernetes Administrator or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer. Strong understanding of Terraform execution plans, state management, resource dependencies, module versioning, and promotion of infrastructure changes through controlled environments.

Experience with automated validation testing and CI/CD integration for infrastructure changes. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to various stakeholders. Ability to take ownership of ambiguous production issues and drive reliable solutions. About PTR Global: PTR Global is a leading provider of information technology and workforce solutions. PTR Global has become one of the largest providers in its industry, with over 5000 professionals providing services across the U.S. and Canada.

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Pay Range: $55 - $57 The specific compensation for this position will be determined by several factors, including the scope, complexity, and location of the role, as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education,…