Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer at 3M Consultancy
Austin, TX
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Jul 26, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A contract Platform/DevOps engineering role responsible for owning the full delivery lifecycle of a multi-tenant AI SaaS platform spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP simultaneously. Day-to-day work involves authoring and maintaining infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/Terragrunt, managing multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, building GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, and driving GitOps delivery via ArgoCD. The role also contributes to architectural improvements for resiliency and security.
Senior level · Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 55 people in the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 25–100
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $137,069 (middle half $106,287–$172,440).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting is for a 6–12 month contract and explicitly restricts applicants to US Citizens only.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role writes and ships substantial infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD automation (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also carries significant day-to-day operational responsibilities such as cluster provisioning, workload troubleshooting, and incident remediation (pointing to 15-1244). The primary weight of the JD leans toward building and owning delivery systems, so 15-1252 was selected with 15-1244 as the runner-up.
KMS (AWS) and Azure Key Vault are listed together as a single secrets/identity management requirement; they are captured as one skill with the other as an alternative. GCP equivalents (Cloud KMS) would also satisfy this requirement but are not explicitly named.
Docker, RDS, Redis, ACR/ECR, Temporal, and Authentik appear in the narrative/operational context sections of the posting rather than the explicit 'Required Skills' block, so they are marked as preferred.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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