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The Friedkin Group

Diversified conglomerate—automotive sales, luxury hospitality, philanthropy

Senior DevOps Engineer

DevOps EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeHouston, TX, USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Seven or more years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related technical role.
  • Four or more years of hands-on experience supporting enterprise AWS environments.
  • Hands-on experience with Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
  • Advanced experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Strong understanding of AWS and cloud networking, including VPC architecture, routing, DNS, security groups, load balancing, private connectivity, and TLS.
  • Experience building and supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong experience with Docker and containerized applications.
  • Hands-on experience with Datadog or a comparable enterprise observability platform.
  • Experience with Git-based development and deployment workflows.
  • Strong scripting and automation experience using Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell.
  • Solid understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, encryption, and least-privilege principles.
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot complex distributed applications and production infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, automate, and maintain scalable infrastructure within Amazon Web Services.
  • Deploy, operate, troubleshoot, and upgrade Amazon EKS and Kubernetes environments.
  • Develop reusable Terraform modules and manage infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code.
  • Support Terraform Cloud workflows, state management, environment promotion, and infrastructure deployment pipelines.
  • Design and troubleshoot cloud networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, DNS, load balancers, private endpoints, Transit Gateway, VPN, and hybrid connectivity.
  • Build and maintain secure, reliable CI/CD pipelines for applications and infrastructure.
  • Support Databricks environments, jobs, workflows, deployments, cloud integrations, and data platform infrastructure.
  • Partner with data engineering teams supporting modern Lakehouse architectures and data pipelines.
  • Implement and enhance enterprise observability using Datadog, including infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, distributed tracing, centralized logging, dashboards, alerting, and performance monitoring.
  • Build, secure, and optimize Docker containers and container deployment processes.
  • Manage AWS services such as EKS, EC2, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, ECR, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, Route 53, CloudWatch, SQS/SNS, and load balancers.
  • Implement secure IAM, role-based access control, secrets management, encryption, and least-privilege access controls.
  • Develop automation using Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell to eliminate repetitive operational processes.
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues across applications, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and data platforms.
  • Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and reliability improvements.
  • Develop operational documentation, standards, reusable patterns, and runbooks.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on DevOps, cloud, infrastructure, and platform engineering practices.
  • Collaborate with software engineering, data engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, highly available, secure, and observable technology platforms.
  • Improve engineering standards, deployment automation, platform reliability, and operational efficiency.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Databricks.
  • Experience with Apache Spark and Delta Lake.
  • Experience with Unity Catalog.
  • Experience with Databricks Workflows or Asset Bundles.
  • Experience with AWS Glue.
  • Experience with Kafka or Confluent.
  • Experience with Terraform Cloud.
  • Experience with GitHub Actions.
  • Experience with Helm.
  • Experience with FluxCD or Argo CD.
  • Experience with GitOps.
  • Experience with AWS RDS or Aurora.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL or SQL Server.
  • Experience with API Gateway or Kong.
  • Experience with AWS Secrets Manager or KMS.
  • Experience with Microsoft Entra ID or Okta.
  • Experience with MLOps and ML platform engineering.
  • Experience with enterprise data and Lakehouse platforms.

About the Company

The Friedkin Group

Diversified conglomerate—automotive sales, luxury hospitality, philanthropy

The Friedkin Group is a diversified company active in automotive, luxury hospitality, and philanthropy. In automotive, it sells vehicles and supports brands like the Land Cruiser, a staple in the U.S. since 1958. In luxury hospitality, it offers curated travel experiences. In philanthropy, it funds and partners with nonprofits such as the Boys & Girls Clubs, United Way, and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation. The goal is to create value through high-quality products and services while investing in people and communities to support sustainable growth across its diversified portfolio.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founded
1969

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