DevOps Cloud Engineer

Trident Consulting is seeking a "DevOps Cloud Engineer " for one of our client in Austin, TX. A global leader in business and technology services.

Job Title

DevOps Cloud Engineer

Location

Austin, TX

Job Type

Contract

Pay Rate

$62

Job Description/ Responsibilities

• Design, implement, operate, and support highly available and scalable infrastructure across AliCloud and AWS environments.
• Apply SRE principles to improve availability, latency, performance, capacity, scalability, and operational efficiency of production services.
• Define, track, and continuously improve SLIs, SLOs, and operational reliability metrics for critical services.
• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments using modern DevOps practices.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployments, health checks, maintenance, and repetitive operational activities using scripting and Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop automation using Python, Bash/Shell, or equivalent scripting languages to eliminate manual effort and improve operational consistency.
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux-based production systems, including OS, processes, services, storage, networking, permissions, patching, system performance, and security.
• Support cloud services covering compute, storage, networking, IAM/security, load balancing, monitoring, logging, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and configuration automation using tools such as Ansible.
• Work with containerized and cloud-native platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, troubleshooting, and operational support.
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Splunk, or comparable platforms.
• Participate in production incident response, perform systematic troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, and drive corrective and preventive actions through blameless post-incident reviews.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks, automation playbooks, recovery procedures, and technical documentation.
• Identify recurring operational issues and eliminate toil through engineering and automation.

About Trident Consulting

Trident Consulting is an award-winning staffing and consulting firm headquartered in San Ramon, CA. Since 2005, we've partnered with Fortune 500 and high-growth companies to deliver high-quality talent across technology, engineering, business operations, and professional services.

We specialize in contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire placements, supporting roles across IT, data & analytics, cloud, cybersecurity, finance & accounting, HR, operations, and more. With a strong focus on hard-to-fill and niche positions, our global recruiting engine enables us to deliver speed, quality, and scale.

Learn more

www.tridentconsultinginc.com