Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS / Linux)

Rise Technical • Full-time • Texas, United States, US • $130,000 - $160,000 / year • 23h ago

$130’000 - $160’000 | 401(K) | PTO | Progression to Lead | 4-day bi-weekly working week!

Texas – Hybrid Remote

Are you a Sr DevOps Engineer with strong Linux skills, ready to step into a lead role as the right-hand to the Head of DevOps giving you full technical ownership of AWS DevOps & architecture?

You’ll lead and mentor a small team while shaping the future of the platform with an industry leading SaaS company offering a close knit, stability and progressive career platform!

This well-established cloud SaaS company delivers solutions to one of the world’s largest industries and is rapidly gaining global market share. Focused on scaling without compromising its culture, they are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer to join their growing team.

You will be responsible for working closely with the Head of DevOps as their technical right-hand, helping to modernize and evolve a large-scale AWS environment. You will have the autonomy to make improvements, influence architecture decisions, and take a holistic, end-to-end view of DevOps across infrastructure, automation, security, and reliability. Technologies will include AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, containerization, Windows & Linux environments, and security-focused cloud infrastructure.

This is the perfect opportunity for someone looking to step up into a Technical Lead-style role, gain real influence, and make a visible impact in a stable, growing SaaS business that values engineering leadership and long-term progression.

The Role

* Act as the technical right-hand to the Head of DevOps

* AWS Services – CloudFormation, EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, ECS, CloudFront, CloudTrail, Inspector, SSM

* Containerization – Docker, Podman

* Infrastructure as Code – Terraform, HashiCorp Packer

* Message Queues – RabbitMQ

* Operating Systems – Windows, Linux

* Relational – MySQL, PostgreSQL

* NoSQL – DynamoDB, Couchbase

* Languages – Python, Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript

* CI/CD Pipelines – Git, TeamCity, AWS CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeDeplo

The Person