Devops Engineer- Dallas, TX
Photon
- Location
- Onsite (United States)
- Compensation
- $38k - $135k/yr
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the Role
Join Photon as a DevOps Engineer to bridge development, infrastructure, and operations, enabling reliable and scalable delivery of cloud-native and AI-powered platforms. You will optimize infrastructure, drive automation, and ensure high availability, supporting AI/ML platforms with robust MLOps practices.
Skills
Benefits
- Medical
- Vision
- Dental
- 401k
- PTO
- Paid Holidays
Full job details
The DevOps Engineer will play a critical role in bridging development, infrastructure, and operations to enable reliable, scalable, and secure delivery of modern cloud-native and AI-powered platforms. This role requires a strong combination of deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD practices, along with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and platform teams.
You will be responsible for defining and implementing DevOps strategies, optimizing infrastructure, driving automation, and ensuring high availability and performance of systems in production. The role also involves supporting AI/ML platforms by enabling robust MLOps practices and ensuring seamless deployment, monitoring, and scaling of applications and services.
Key Responsibilities:
Infrastructure Design: Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP
Automation & CI/CD: Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, testing, and deployment using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions
Cloud & Platform Engineering: Develop and manage cloud-native architectures, ensuring efficient resource utilization, scalability, and reliability
Containerization & Orchestration: Implement and manage containerized environments using Docker and orchestrate them with Kubernetes
Monitoring & Observability: Establish monitoring, logging, and tracing systems to ensure system reliability and enable real-time diagnostics
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Define and manage infrastructure using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates
Performance Optimization: Optimize infrastructure and deployment pipelines for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency
MLOps Enablement: Support deployment and lifecycle management of ML/AI models, including versioning, monitoring, and scaling
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering roles
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud-native architectures
- Expertise in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) and automation practices
- Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, etc.)
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, Shell scripting)
- Experience in microservices architecture and distributed systems
- Strong understanding of networking, security, and system design principles
- Experience with databases and storage systems (SQL, NoSQL, caching systems like Redis)
- Familiarity with MLOps practices and supporting AI/ML workloads in production
- Experience in managing high-availability systems, incident management, and disaster recovery
- Strong understanding of version control systems (Git)
- Ability to collaborate across teams and drive operational excellence
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Minimum Compensation: USD 38,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 135,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.
This position is not available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post
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