DevOps & Terraform Engineer

Cynet Systems • Houston, TX

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About The Position

We are seeking a skilled DevOps & Terraform Engineer with extensive experience in cloud infrastructure management, particularly with Terraform, AWS, and Azure. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining robust infrastructure components, automating provisioning and management processes, and ensuring the security, scalability, and reliability of cloud environments. A key focus will be on managing Azure SQL databases and implementing advanced release management and deployment strategies.

Requirements

• 5+ years of deep, hands-on experience writing production-grade Terraform modules for both AWS and Azure.
• 5+ years of experience managing Azure SQL cloud ecosystems.
• Solid understanding of core AWS services, especially AWS managed databases (RDS) and how to provision these using Terraform.
• Experience with Azure DevOps Services and Pipelines, including authoring multi-stage YAML pipelines, build/release templates, gated builds, and pipeline variables.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform modular design, state management, and remote backends (Terraform Cloud).
• Experience with Azure Boards and task management.
• Experience with managing code repositories in Hashicorp Cloud.
• 10+ years of overall experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage, maintain, and secure Azure SQL Databases, Azure SQL Managed Instances, and SQL Server on Azure VMs.
• Monitor database health, proactively troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, and optimize complex queries, indexes, and execution plans.
• Implement and test robust database backup, disaster recovery (DR), and high-availability (HA) strategies such as Failover Groups and Geo-Replication.
• Perform new database setup and configuration in Azure SQL.
• Execute cost optimization strategies in Azure SQL.
• Implement release management and deployment strategies including blue/green, canary, rolling updates, feature flags, and rollback planning.
• Design, build, and maintain robust infrastructure components on AWS and Azure using Terraform as the primary IaC tool.
• Ensure proper Terraform state-file management, backend configuration, and module reusability across multi-cloud environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and management processes.
• Ensure cloud environments are secure, scalable, and reliable.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed