Role: Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Plano, Texas, (Hybrid)
Duration: Long Term Contract
Description:
We're seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to strengthen our infrastructure and deployment automation capabilities. This role is part of our DevOps team responsible for building and maintaining the cloud infrastructure that powers cybersecurity platform services across Toyota's connected vehicle ecosystem.
You will work alongside the Enterprise Architect and fellow DevOps engineers to build and maintain multi-cluster EKS architectures, Istio service mesh configurations, CI/CD pipelines, and observability systems. Our platform services are built to serve not just our team, but other teams across PCG and broader Toyota. You will bring strong hands-on IaC and Kubernetes expertise to help the team deliver infrastructure reliably and at scale.
Key Responsibilities:
EKS & Kubernetes Infrastructure
• Contribute to multi-cluster Amazon EKS environments across DEV, QA, CRM Staging, and Production accounts
• Deploy and configure Istio service mesh
• Implement canary deployment strategies and progressive rollout patterns
• Manage Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and namespace etc
• Configure ingress controllers, load balancers, and service discovery for microservices
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform & Terragrunt)
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules for AWS resources
• Work with Terragrunt configurations for DRY, multi-account, multi-environment infrastructure deployments
• Build reusable, composable Terraform modules following team standards and patterns established by the Enterprise Architect
• Enforce AWS resource labeling and tagging standardization through IaC
• Manage state files, remote backends, and module versioning
CI/CD Pipeline Automation
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Go and Python microservices
• Automate container image builds, ECR publishing, and Kubernetes deployments
• Integrate automated testing gates (unit, integration, contract tests) into pipelines
• Support trunk-based development workflows with Toyota GitHub
• Develop deployment validation and automated health checks to replace manual verification processes
Observability & Reliability
• Implement observability using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
• Support Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Real User Monitoring (RUM) capabilities
• Contribute to alerting, SLOs, and dashboards for platform services
• Support the team's OpenTelemetry integration in the Core Library
Platform Service Deployments
• Deploy and manage infrastructure for existing and future platform services
• Automate certificate management, IDP policy configuration, and secrets provisioning through pipelines
• Support multi-tenant architecture for services consumed by multiple PCG teams
Requirements:
Technical Skills:
• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering experience in production environments
• Hands-on experience with Amazon EKS — cluster provisioning, node group management, RBAC, networking (VPC CNI), and storage
• Expert-level proficiency with Terraform — module design, state management, provider configuration, workspace strategies
• Strong AWS experience: IAM, VPC, EKS, ECR, DynamoDB, S3, SNS/SQS, Secrets Manager, Route53, CloudFront, CloudWatch
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
• Proficiency with Docker — container image optimization, multi-stage builds
• Experience with trunk-based development or GitFlow branching strategies
Soft Skills:
• Strong problem-solving mindset with ability to debug complex distributed systems
• Clear communication skills — able to collaborate effectively with developers, test engineers, and leadership
• Self-directed with ability to pick up tasks and deliver independently within team priorities
• Team-oriented — comfortable working within an established team structure and following architectural direction
• Willingness to share knowledge and help uplift the skills of fellow DevOps team members
EDUCATION:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
Relevant certifications in AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform are highly valued.
