Top Senior DevOps Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, develop, enhance, and support enterprise Pega applications for a financial services client. Responsibilities include configuring workflows, case management, UI features, integrations, and reusable frameworks; troubleshooting production issues; resolving defects; conducting code reviews; enforcing Pega guardrails; collaborating with architects, QA, stakeholders, and DevOps teams; participating in Agile ceremonies, testing, releases, demonstrations, and CI/CD deployment processes.

Design, develop, and scale mission-critical backend applications and distributed services. Build Python and Celery services, FastMCP services, Docker Swarm environments, and horizontally scalable architectures. Optimize Couchbase and NoSQL data systems, troubleshoot Linux-based distributed environments, and apply cloud-native AWS practices. Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver secure, reliable solutions while using spec-driven development and AI coding tools.

Leads the design, development, testing, deployment, and technical direction of scalable AWS backend solutions for assessment scoring systems. Builds Node.js and TypeScript APIs, microservices, data pipelines, and serverless applications; resolves production issues; ensures engineering quality and data accuracy; and mentors junior engineers. Partners with product, business, and psychometrics stakeholders on requirements, roadmaps, and delivery. Promotes DevOps, testing, documentation, responsible AI-assisted development, and continuous improvement.

Leads and develops software engineering teams while remaining hands-on with Java and Spring Boot development. Responsibilities include setting architecture and technical roadmaps, delivering scalable enterprise applications, guiding Agile planning, improving CI/CD and DevOps practices, supporting production reliability, mentoring talent, and partnering with product and business stakeholders. The role manages hiring, performance, succession planning, and engineering excellence initiatives.

Administer and optimize production, staging, and development databases across SQL and NoSQL platforms. Responsibilities include database installation, configuration, architecture, performance monitoring, security, backups, disaster recovery, high availability, failover, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and data recovery. The role supports ETL pipelines and reporting, collaborates with developers and data modelers, provides technical mentorship, and manages database infrastructure in Linux and AWS environments for EPA applications.

Design, build, and scale Shepherd’s core platform, backend systems, APIs, user-facing applications, and AI-powered legal workflows. Architect secure, reliable infrastructure for sensitive legal data, collaborate with legal and product teams, build internal tools, optimize performance, and own technical decisions. The role also involves rapid prototyping, mentoring and recruiting engineers, and contributing to SOC 2 readiness and data privacy practices.

Own and evolve AWS infrastructure powering a multi-tenant SaaS platform, including EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD. Lead infrastructure projects, improve reliability and developer self-service, manage SLOs, reduce toil, support SOC 2 compliance, mentor engineers, and participate in incident response. Collaborate with Product teams on reliable customer launches and use observability tools to monitor platform performance.

Defines and governs enterprise architecture across applications, infrastructure, cloud, integrations, security, and data. Develops technology strategies and roadmaps, leads architecture governance and modernization initiatives, and guides cloud migration, application integration, infrastructure automation, resiliency, and security-by-design. Partners with executives, business stakeholders, product teams, engineers, cybersecurity teams, and vendors to align technology investments with business objectives. Mentors technical teams and communicates architectural decisions across technical and business audiences.

Provides technical leadership for mainframe automation architecture, development, integration, and performance improvement. Designs scalable solutions across z/OS environments and automation platforms, reduces manual intervention through automated corrective actions, and guides agile engineering practices. Evaluates tool effectiveness, identifies systemic gaps, and drives enhancements for proactive issue detection. The role requires strong mainframe programming expertise, technical leadership, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Leads a team of application development engineers delivering complex enterprise software solutions. Oversees project scope, schedules, budgets, vendors, risks, security, service transitions, prototypes, staffing, performance management, and technical development. Partners with architects, data specialists, Security, and SRE teams while ensuring application quality, stability, and policy compliance. Requires strong leadership, communication, coaching, application architecture, DevOps, Agile, database, and data governance expertise.

Designs and develops FPGA SmartNIC networking acceleration for Microsoft Azure. Responsibilities include hardware architecture evaluation, RTL coding in Verilog/SystemVerilog, simulation, hardware testing, debugging, verification, scripting, software development, Agile collaboration, and production DevOps support. The role partners across hardware and software teams to deliver cloud networking infrastructure, including SDN capabilities, packet manipulation, and performance improvements.

Operates and supports customer cloud environments across Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI. Responsibilities include monitoring, incident and request response, provisioning, access management, maintenance, troubleshooting, governance, documentation, customer communication, and ITSM execution. The role also uses scripting, automation, monitoring, and DevOps/SRE practices to improve operational consistency. Participation in after-hours and weekend on-call support is required.

Leads software engineering teams, develops technical and people leaders, modernizes legacy customer-facing applications, and advances engineering practices. Partners with product, architecture, quality, DevOps, delivery, and business stakeholders to improve reliability, security, customer experience, adoption, and delivery speed. Drives CI/CD, automation, observability, resilience, cloud-native practices, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted software development while managing priorities, risks, dependencies, capacity, and organizational change.

Lead DevOps and SRE initiatives focused on Azure SQL Elastic Pools, cloud infrastructure reliability, observability, automation, high availability, disaster recovery, and incident response. Manage scalable Azure or AWS environments, build infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines, optimize performance and costs, develop monitoring and remediation solutions, and mentor junior engineers while partnering across development, security, and database teams.

Design, operate, and scale SailPoint’s AWS-based Kubernetes infrastructure and service mesh for a global, mission-critical SaaS platform. Responsibilities include cluster architecture, networking, security, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, capacity planning, incident response, compliance, and platform standards. The role influences engineering teams globally, participates in 24x7 on-call support, leads service mesh strategy, and improves reliability, performance, deployment efficiency, and operational practices.

Design, develop, maintain, and customize Guidewire ClaimCenter solutions. Reverse engineer legacy codebases, integrate ClaimCenter with external systems through SOAP and REST APIs, and ensure scalability, performance, and reliability. Troubleshoot complex technical issues, contribute to upgrades and migrations, and collaborate with business analysts, architects, and developers. The role requires strong Guidewire, Java, Spring Boot, Gosu, data model, and integration expertise, with DevOps, cloud, and front-end experience preferred.

Leads and develops a Scrum-based software engineering team, improving Agile practices, planning, delivery predictability, workflow management, KPIs, and software quality. Partners with technical and business stakeholders in a Microsoft technology environment, balancing production support with strategic development initiatives. Coaches developers, supports staffing and resource planning, and provides technical leadership without serving as the primary developer.

Leads technical delivery architecture for complex mainframe modernization projects. Designs and implements Rocket Software solutions, manages technical project scope, develops proofs of concept, guides modernization and migration efforts, leads technical teams, communicates risks and requirements, estimates changes, conducts code reviews, and advises customers. The role also supports presentations, training, defect resolution, automation pipelines, DevOps practices, and modernization of COBOL applications and mainframe data.

Lead technical direction for Elastic’s core billing platform across cloud providers. Design and operate scalable billing systems, data pipelines, APIs, and PostgreSQL architecture. Improve reliability, observability, incident response, deployment, and CI/CD practices. Partner with SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, Product, Design, and Finance teams, guide architecture and roadmap decisions, review technical work, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call rotations.

Designs scalable systems, leads end-to-end technical execution, drives cross-team initiatives, and contributes hands-on production code. The role maintains engineering standards across architecture, testing, CI/CD, observability, and DevOps; leads incident response and root-cause analysis; mentors engineers; troubleshoots production issues; and aligns technical delivery with product priorities.

Designs, implements, and manages AWS infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code automation. Partners with application engineering, quality, security, and compliance teams to deliver reliable platform solutions. Owns platform stability, observability, incident response, security best practices, and zero-downtime deployments. Participates in on-call rotations, uses metrics for decision-making, and supports application architecture decisions while continuously improving DevOps processes and automation.

Designs, implements, and governs DevOps and deployment orchestration solutions for complex Salesforce implementations. Responsibilities include assessing processes, selecting tools, managing CI/CD and release strategies, establishing governance, overseeing deployments, leading client design sessions, supporting pre-sales activities, and applying AI-assisted development workflows. The role requires strong Salesforce platform expertise, hands-on deployment experience, client-facing communication, and collaboration with technical and account teams.

Build and evolve scalable systems that capture, ingest, and process real-time and recorded audio/video streams from telephony and meeting platforms. Design distributed media pipelines optimized for reliability, performance, and low latency; provide technical leadership and mentorship; solve complex systems problems; implement testing and quality practices; contribute to architecture and code reviews; and maintain security and compliance standards.

Defines and evolves enterprise systems architecture across IT systems, applications, integrations, data, cloud, infrastructure, security, and operations. Translates business capabilities and requirements into architecture models, roadmaps, design guidance, nonfunctional requirements, and delivery enablers. Supports SAFe and Agile planning, architecture governance, integration design, technical risk management, operational readiness, and continuous improvement. Collaborates with business, product, engineering, security, infrastructure, and operations stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, resilient, supportable solutions.

Designs, develops, and leads scalable healthcare software solutions involving transaction processing, interoperability standards, integrations, and data platforms. Provides hands-on engineering, architectural leadership, quality ownership, risk management, technical mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires building high-performance cloud-based SaaS solutions using microservices and serverless architectures, while guiding engineering strategy and ensuring secure, reliable delivery.