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Senior DevOps Engineer

CACI

Full-time

Fairfax, VA

Job description

Company

Flotek creates unique solutions to reduce the environmental impact of energy on air, water, land and people. A technology-driven, specialty green chemistry and data technology company, Flotek helps customers across industrial and commercial markets improve their environmental performance. The Company serves specialty chemistry needs for both domestic and international energy markets. Flotek has an intellectual property portfolio of over 170 patents and a global presence in more than 15 countries, including North America, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa. Flotek is based in Houston, Texas and its common shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “FTK.” For additional information on Flotek, please visit www.flotekind.com.

Position: DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote (with optional office access in Austin or Houston, TX)

Reports to: Sr. Director of Software Engineering

Type: Full-Time, M–F, 8:00am–5:00pm (occasional evening/weekend work may be required)

Travel: Up to 10%

Role Overview

In this role, the DevOps Engineer will play a key role in managing and evolving our cutting-edge edge/cloud software and data technologies. This candidate will be responsible for the ongoing operational excellence that underpins our Edge IoT platform, robust Cloud Architecture, and insightful Data Analytics. We value a proactive and collaborative team player who will bring their technical prowess to significantly enhance the reliability and automation of our crucial software and data infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Software Engineering, the DevOps Engineer will be directly responsible for the following:

  • Ensure System Reliability: Maintain stable, scalable infrastructure across edge and cloud environments.
  • Automate Operations: Build and maintain tools and scripts for CI/CD, deployment, and infrastructure management.
  • Own Core Infrastructure: Support uptime, performance, and data quality across all platforms.
  • Develop & Maintain Tools: Write clean, reusable code for infrastructure and DevOps automation tasks.
  • Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with developers, product owners, and QA to ship reliable features quickly.
  • Improve Quality: Contribute to code reviews and promote best practices across the engineering team.
  • Explore & Implement Tech: Research and introduce new technologies that improve deployment speed and system efficiency.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field—or equivalent professional experience with a demonstrable portfolio.
  • 5+ years in IT, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering, and experience with production systems and automation.
  • 2+ years of hands-on software development experience.
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or C#.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash, or PowerShell.)
  • Experience with Linux (preferably Debian-based) and Windows environments, including Windows IoT.
  • Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, Redis).
  • Cloud experience with AWS or similar (deployment, resource management, cost optimization).
  • Working knowledge of JSON/YAML for configuration and APIs.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with frontend frameworks (e.g., ReactJS).
  • Background working with IoT/Edge infrastructure in distributed or constrained environments.
  • Familiarity with Cybersecurity, DataOps, or modern DevOps best practices.
  • Industry experience in Energy or Oil & Gas, especially working with field analyzers or similar technologies.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibility.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit and climb or balance. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Other Duties

This job description is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of the employee for this job. Duties and responsibilities may change at any time

EEO Statement

Flotek Industries is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and/or expression), pregnancy, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Flexible spending account
  • Health insurance
  • Health savings account
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift
  • Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person