About the role

What will you do at VoltaGrid?

Position Title: DEVOPS & SRE ENGINEER

Location: HOUSTON, TX

FLSA Class: EXEMPT

Responsible to: Directo of Software Engineering

Position Summary: DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to implement and evolve the

infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and reliability posture of our systems.

You'll work closely with engineering teams to build scalable, observable, and

resilient infrastructure while driving a culture of operational excellence.

Essential Duties and

Responsibilities

* Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure
* Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads in
production
* Develop and maintain infrastructureascode using Terraform (or equivalent
tooling)
* Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and reliable
deployments
* Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
(Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
* Define and track SLIs/SLOs, participate in incident response, root cause
analysis, and blameless postmortems
* Identify and eliminate toil through automation and selfservice tooling
* Configure and maintain onprem baremetal servers and Linuxbased infrastructure
* Configure, maintain, and optimize virtualized assets
* Collaborate with development teams on system design, capacity planning, and
performance optimization
* Participate in oncall rotations and ensure production readiness of new
services
Other

Requirements

* 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles
* Strong experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure
AWS preferred)
* Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production
environments
* Proficiency with infrastructureascode tools, particularly Terraform
* Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab
CI, Jenkins, or similar)
* Solid understanding of monitoring and observability (metrics, logs, traces)
* Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or Go)
* Experience with incident management, SLObased reliability practices, and
capacity planning
* Strong Linux systems administration skills (Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, or similar)
* Experience with virtualization platforms including VM provisioning, storage,
networking, and cluster management
* Solid understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security
fundamentals

Nice to Have

* Contributions to internal developer platforms or platform engineering
initiatives
* Proxmox VE experience
* Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS SA, CKA, etc.)
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of
work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. All personnel
may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from
time to time, as needed.
VoltaGrid is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the
basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national
origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital
status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, arrest record,
or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local
laws.
Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment,
hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits,
employee activities, and general treatment during employment. #LI-KM1

Which skills does this role require?

PrometheusGrafanaDatadogInfrastructure as CodeDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringSLISLOIncident ResponseCloud ComputingAutomationBare-metalSystem DesignGCPAzure

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