Job Title: DevOps & Terraform Consultant
Location: - Houston, TX 77046
Mode : Contract (6+ Months) - Onsite
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): 5+ years of deep, hands-on experience writing production-grade Terraform modules for both AWS and Azure.
Database Expertise: 5+ years of experience managing Azure SQL cloud ecosystems.
AWS Competency: Solid understanding of core AWS services, especially AWS managed databases (RDS) and how to provision these IAC tool Terraform.
Azure Database Administration & Performance Tuning
- 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 (e.g., Failover Groups, Geo-Replication)
- New Database seutp and configuration in Azure SQL.
- Cost Optimazation in Azure SQL.
Azure Devope & CI/CD Integration:
- Azure DevOps Services & Pipelines - author multi-stage YAML pipelines, build/release templates, gated builds, and pipeline variables.
- Hands-on with Terraform modular design, state management, and remote backends (Terraform Cloud).
- Release Management & Deployment Strategies - blue/green, canary, rolling updates, feature flags, rollback planning.
- Experience with Azure Boards, tasks etc.
- Experience with managing code repository in Hashicorp Cloud.
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform):
- 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.