Job Title : Lead DevOps Consultant
Location : Dallas, TX (Onsite)
Duration : 6+ months
Must Have :
- Golang
- Terraform
- Ansible
In this role, you will:
- Lead complex initiatives to develop infrastructure to provide solutions for business applications
- Architect and develop reusable, modular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) components using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Crossplane.
- Design and implement GitOps-driven workflows that enable automated provisioning, deployment, and lifecycle management of cloud infrastructure.
- Build and maintain self-service platform capabilities that empower developers to manage infrastructure independently through intuitive interfaces and APIs.
- Lead the integration of infrastructure automation with tools such as ArgoCD, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools (Tekton, GitHub Actions) to streamline developer experience.
- Define and enforce infrastructure standards and golden paths that promote consistency, security, and scalability.
- Collaborate with platform, security, and application teams to align infrastructure automation with business and engineering goals.
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and mentor other engineers on best practices in infrastructure automation.
- Continuously evaluate and improve the performance, reliability, and maintainability of infrastructure tooling and workflows.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 3 + years of experience with Terraform, Ansible, Crossplane or similar IaC tools
- 3 + years of experience with GitOps principles and experience with tools like ArgoCD, Tekton, or GitHub Actions
- 2 + years of experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and hybrid cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- 2+ years of experience with designing and consuming RESTful APIs (Golang, Python) and integrating infrastructure automation into platform services
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with Crossplane or other control plane abstraction tools
- Familiarity with developer portals (e.g., Backstage) and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)
- Exposure to image management tools like Packer or Image Builder
- Background in building platform engineering solutions that support cloud-native development and service ownership
- Knowledge of observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)
- A developer-first mindset with a passion for reducing friction and improving engineering productivity
Thanks,
Gopalakrishna
gopalakrishnam@tekskillsinc.com
