DevOps Engineer
Houston, TX, TX
Contracted
Experienced
Job Role: DevOps Engineer
Location: Houston, TX (Oniste/Hybrid)
Job Description:
Required Skills & Qualifications:
Preferred/Bonus Skills:
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Security Engineering roles
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, RDS, ECS/EKS, Lambda, etc.)
- Deep expertise in Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and compliance
- Experience managing Okta or similar SSO/IAM platforms in a complex multi-app environment
- Solid understanding of API management and experience with Kong, AWS API Gateway, or similar platforms
- Familiarity with OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, and API security models
- Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline)
- Proficiency in scripting with Python, Bash, or similar
- Understanding of DevSecOps principles and integrating security in automated pipelines
- Experience with secrets management tools like Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or SSM
- Strong knowledge of cloud networking, firewalls, and security controls
Preferred/Bonus Skills:
- Experience with containerization and Kubernetes (EKS) security best practices
- Exposure to compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, etc.
- Experience with SIEMs or logging platforms (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, CloudWatch)
- Familiarity with automated security testing (SAST, DAST, IAST)
- AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Security Specialty, DevOps Professional)
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