Career Developers, Inc. · 1 month ago
DevOps Engineer (Python Automation/On-Prem Linux is a MUST) Location: Houston Texas OR Boston, Mas
Houston, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expCareer Developers Inc. is a distinguished staffing and consulting firm with 30 years of service excellence. They are seeking multiple DevOps Engineers with strong Python automation and Linux engineering backgrounds to build and support on-premise DevOps platforms.
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Responsibilities
Designing, implementing, and maintaining on-premise platform services
Automating operational tasks using Python and configuration management tools
Improving platform reliability, scalability, and observability
Working with containerization, orchestration, CI/CD tooling, and Linux systems
Monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing high-capacity distributed systems
Supporting production environments (remote support rotation varies by team)
Providing technical guidance to junior engineers and contributing to platform standards
Qualification
Required
Strong Python development for automation
Expert-level Linux engineering/administration
Hands-on on-premise DevOps experience (not cloud-only)
Experience supporting large enterprise environments
Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows and DevOps methodologies
Ability to collaborate with Engineering, Operations, and Platform teams
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
4–10 years of DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Linux Engineering experience
Python development experience for advanced automation
Strong Linux administration (system internals, troubleshooting, performance tuning)
Experience with Git, CI/CD, and modern development workflows
Experience with containerization (Docker, Podman, or similar)
Experience with configuration management (Ansible preferred; Puppet or Chef a plus)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, high-scale technical environment
Strong experience with Kubernetes (K8s) cluster maintenance, operations, and troubleshooting
Linux engineering expertise for compute-intensive environments
Strong Python automation; transitioning toward Ansible
Hybrid/on-prem environment (not cloud-native)
Ability to support a rotating remote on-call schedule (daytime, ~every 2 months)
Must have both operations and development experience
Strong expertise with PostgreSQL (must-have)
Strong Linux and Ansible background
Heavy Python automation experience
Experience supporting Database-as-a-Service (DaaS) platforms
Ability to manage and automate environments with hundreds of database instances
Exposure to very large-scale data footprints (terabytes to petabytes)
Strong experience with GitLab, Bitbucket, or similar tools
CI/CD pipeline architecture, maintenance, and optimization
Strong Linux and Python automation
Experience automating developer workflows, build systems, and integration tooling
Experience supporting engineering teams in a platform-as-a-service capacity
Strong experience with Kafka, Kafka clusters, or Kafka tooling automation
Experience managing distributed messaging systems
Experience implementing monitoring, scaling, and automation around data pipelines
Preferred
Experience with orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Slurm, Airflow, Prefect)
Experience with Terraform or other IaC tools
Experience with observability systems (Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana)
Experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins)
Experience with large-scale storage, compute, or distributed systems
Experience with MongoDB (nice to have)
Benefits
Referral fee program
Company
Career Developers, Inc.
Career Developers, located in West Palm Beach and has been serving the NY Metro area for 3 decades! We are an experienced, full-service agency providing permanent placement as well as consulting/contracting services.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase