Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in Texas
Cloud Platform Engineer jobs in Texas are in strong demand, concentrated in enterprise technology, energy, financial services, and healthcare sectors, with openings at every level from junior engineers to principal architects. Austin, Dallas, and Houston lead hiring volume, anchored by large employers like Dell Technologies, AT&T, and ExxonMobil, all of which maintain significant cloud infrastructure operations in the state. The most sought-after specialties include Kubernetes orchestration, multi-cloud architecture across AWS and Azure, and platform DevSecOps. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Why Join GEICO?
At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.
Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.
Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported, and proud to work here. That's why we offer the GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards, and Great Careers.
Distinguished Engineer – Private Cloud Platform Engineering
Position Summary
GEICO is seeking a transformational Distinguished Engineer to lead the technical vision, architecture, and evolution of our next-generation private cloud platform. This role will be responsible for driving the strategy, design, and implementation of a highly scalable, secure, and operationally efficient cloud ecosystem built on OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, and Software Defined Networking technologies.
As one of GEICO's most senior technical leaders, you will define the future-state architecture for our multi-region private cloud, influence technology decisions across Infrastructure, Security, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience organizations, and help accelerate GEICO's modernization journey. You will partner with engineering leaders, architects, and executives to build cloud capabilities that rival public cloud providers while leveraging open-source technologies and commodity hardware to optimize cost, resilience, and scalability.
This role requires deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, storage architecture, and platform engineering along with the ability to influence across organizational boundaries and mentor senior engineering talent.
What You Will Do
Technical Strategy & Architecture
Define and own the long-term technical roadmap for GEICO's Private Cloud Platform.
Establish architectural standards for OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, SDN, identity integration, observability, and automation platforms.
Lead design reviews across multiple organizations and drive architectural consistency throughout the infrastructure ecosystem.
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic investments that improve platform capabilities, operational excellence, and cost efficiency.
Private Cloud Platform Leadership
Architect and evolve a large-scale OpenStack-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform.
Define multi-region designs supporting virtual machines, bare metal services, storage, networking, and container platforms.
Drive modernization initiatives including platform resiliency, disaster recovery, multi-datacenter expansion, and workload migration from legacy virtualization platforms.
Partner with security teams to implement Zero Trust networking, workload identity, encryption, and compliance controls.
Software Defined Networking
Define software-defined networking architectures spanning datacenter and hybrid cloud environments.
Drive innovations in network virtualization, overlay technologies, routing automation, load balancing, firewall integration, and network observability.
Partner closely with networking teams to design scalable east-west and north-south traffic architectures.
Software Defined Storage
Provide technical leadership for large-scale Ceph deployments supporting block, object, and cloud-native storage services.
Design highly available storage architectures for OpenStack, Kubernetes, and application platforms.
Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, data durability, disaster recovery, and operational excellence initiatives.
Engineering Leadership
Mentor Senior Staff, Principal, and Staff Engineers.
Lead critical incident reviews, architecture reviews, and technical decision-making forums.
Build alignment across infrastructure, security, platform, and application engineering organizations.
Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership for private cloud strategy and investment decisions.
Required Qualifications
Experience
15+ years of software, infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering experience.
5+ years operating at Principal, Senior Staff, Distinguished Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership level.
Proven track record designing and operating large-scale cloud platforms supporting thousands of workloads.
Technical Expertise
Kubernetes
Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, operations, networking, storage, security, and ecosystem tooling.
Experience with platform engineering and internal developer platforms.
OpenStack
Extensive experience with OpenStack services including:
Nova
Neutron
Cinder
Glance
Keystone
Ironic
Placement
Experience designing and operating production OpenStack environments at scale.
Ceph
Expert knowledge of Ceph architecture and operations.
Experience with:
RBD
RGW
OSD tuning
Performance optimization
Multi-site deployments
Capacity and durability planning
Software Defined Networking
Deep understanding of SDN principles and architectures.
Experience with technologies such as:
EVPN/VXLAN
BGP
Overlay networking
SmartNIC technologies
Network virtualization
Cloud networking
Service mesh architectures
Automation & Software Engineering
Strong coding skills in one or more of:
Go
Python
Rust
Java
Expertise with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation frameworks.
Experience building highly reliable distributed systems.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building private cloud environments that compete with hyperscale cloud capabilities.
Experience migrating workloads from VMware or other legacy virtualization platforms.
Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure platforms, GPU orchestration, and high-performance computing environments.
Experience operating infrastructure at multi-petabyte scale.
Experience with platform observability and SRE practices.
Strong understanding of cybersecurity, compliance, and zero-trust architecture.
What Success Looks Like
Within the first 12 months, this leader will:
Improve developer experience through self-service infrastructure and platform capabilities.
Accelerate migration from legacy virtualization platforms to modern open-source alternatives.
Increase platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency across GEICO datacenters.
Establish engineering standards and architectural patterns adopted across multiple infrastructure organizations.
Influence technology direction well beyond their immediate team through technical leadership, mentorship, and innovation.
Why This Role Matters
This Distinguished Engineer will play a critical role in shaping GEICO's future infrastructure platform—building a secure, scalable, software-defined private cloud capable of supporting the company's next decade of growth while improving agility, resiliency, and cost efficiency.
#LI-RP2
Annual Salary
The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.
Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.
Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.
Why Join GEICO?
At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.
Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.
Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported, and proud to work here. That's why we offer the GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards, and Great Careers.
Distinguished Engineer – Private Cloud Platform Engineering
Position Summary
GEICO is seeking a transformational Distinguished Engineer to lead the technical vision, architecture, and evolution of our next-generation private cloud platform. This role will be responsible for driving the strategy, design, and implementation of a highly scalable, secure, and operationally efficient cloud ecosystem built on OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, and Software Defined Networking technologies.
As one of GEICO's most senior technical leaders, you will define the future-state architecture for our multi-region private cloud, influence technology decisions across Infrastructure, Security, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience organizations, and help accelerate GEICO's modernization journey. You will partner with engineering leaders, architects, and executives to build cloud capabilities that rival public cloud providers while leveraging open-source technologies and commodity hardware to optimize cost, resilience, and scalability.
This role requires deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, storage architecture, and platform engineering along with the ability to influence across organizational boundaries and mentor senior engineering talent.
What You Will Do
Technical Strategy & Architecture
Define and own the long-term technical roadmap for GEICO's Private Cloud Platform.
Establish architectural standards for OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, SDN, identity integration, observability, and automation platforms.
Lead design reviews across multiple organizations and drive architectural consistency throughout the infrastructure ecosystem.
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic investments that improve platform capabilities, operational excellence, and cost efficiency.
Private Cloud Platform Leadership
Architect and evolve a large-scale OpenStack-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform.
Define multi-region designs supporting virtual machines, bare metal services, storage, networking, and container platforms.
Drive modernization initiatives including platform resiliency, disaster recovery, multi-datacenter expansion, and workload migration from legacy virtualization platforms.
Partner with security teams to implement Zero Trust networking, workload identity, encryption, and compliance controls.
Software Defined Networking
Define software-defined networking architectures spanning datacenter and hybrid cloud environments.
Drive innovations in network virtualization, overlay technologies, routing automation, load balancing, firewall integration, and network observability.
Partner closely with networking teams to design scalable east-west and north-south traffic architectures.
Software Defined Storage
Provide technical leadership for large-scale Ceph deployments supporting block, object, and cloud-native storage services.
Design highly available storage architectures for OpenStack, Kubernetes, and application platforms.
Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, data durability, disaster recovery, and operational excellence initiatives.
Engineering Leadership
Mentor Senior Staff, Principal, and Staff Engineers.
Lead critical incident reviews, architecture reviews, and technical decision-making forums.
Build alignment across infrastructure, security, platform, and application engineering organizations.
Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership for private cloud strategy and investment decisions.
Required Qualifications
Experience
15+ years of software, infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering experience.
5+ years operating at Principal, Senior Staff, Distinguished Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership level.
Proven track record designing and operating large-scale cloud platforms supporting thousands of workloads.
Technical Expertise
Kubernetes
Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, operations, networking, storage, security, and ecosystem tooling.
Experience with platform engineering and internal developer platforms.
OpenStack
Extensive experience with OpenStack services including:
Nova
Neutron
Cinder
Glance
Keystone
Ironic
Placement
Experience designing and operating production OpenStack environments at scale.
Ceph
Expert knowledge of Ceph architecture and operations.
Experience with:
RBD
RGW
OSD tuning
Performance optimization
Multi-site deployments
Capacity and durability planning
Software Defined Networking
Deep understanding of SDN principles and architectures.
Experience with technologies such as:
EVPN/VXLAN
BGP
Overlay networking
SmartNIC technologies
Network virtualization
Cloud networking
Service mesh architectures
Automation & Software Engineering
Strong coding skills in one or more of:
Go
Python
Rust
Java
Expertise with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation frameworks.
Experience building highly reliable distributed systems.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building private cloud environments that compete with hyperscale cloud capabilities.
Experience migrating workloads from VMware or other legacy virtualization platforms.
Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure platforms, GPU orchestration, and high-performance computing environments.
Experience operating infrastructure at multi-petabyte scale.
Experience with platform observability and SRE practices.
Strong understanding of cybersecurity, compliance, and zero-trust architecture.
What Success Looks Like
Within the first 12 months, this leader will:
Improve developer experience through self-service infrastructure and platform capabilities.
Accelerate migration from legacy virtualization platforms to modern open-source alternatives.
Increase platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency across GEICO datacenters.
Establish engineering standards and architectural patterns adopted across multiple infrastructure organizations.
Influence technology direction well beyond their immediate team through technical leadership, mentorship, and innovation.
Why This Role Matters
This Distinguished Engineer will play a critical role in shaping GEICO's future infrastructure platform—building a secure, scalable, software-defined private cloud capable of supporting the company's next decade of growth while improving agility, resiliency, and cost efficiency.
#LI-RP2
Annual Salary
The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.
Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.
Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.
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Cloud Platform Engineer Job Market in Texas
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Insurance
- Technology & Software
- Transportation & Logistics
What Texas Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in cloud platform engineer jobs across Texas.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related engineering field
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools including Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CloudFormation
- Experience designing and operating Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads at scale
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipeline design, GitOps workflows, and DevSecOps practices
- Relevant cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, CKA, or Azure DevOps Engineer
Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in Texas: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a cloud platform engineer in Texas?
Cloud platform engineering in Texas has no state-issued license or registration requirement, so the path runs through education and credentials. Most Texas employers expect a bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or systems engineering, followed by hands-on cloud experience. Industry certifications from AWS, Microsoft, or the Cloud Native Computing Foundation carry real weight in Texas hiring pipelines and often substitute for advanced degrees when paired with a strong project portfolio.
How much do cloud platform engineers make in Texas?
Cloud platform engineers in Texas earn a median of about $132,150 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $82,600 for the lowest 10% to over $183,680 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire cloud platform engineers in Texas?
Employers hiring cloud platform engineers in Texas right now include Contoro, Simpson Strong-Tie, and Apple, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Texas's concentration of Fortune 500 headquarters and large energy and financial services firms means demand comes from both established enterprise IT departments and fast-growing technology divisions within those organizations.
Which Texas cities have the most cloud platform engineer jobs?
Austin, Plano, and Dallas have the most cloud platform engineer openings in Texas. Austin's dense technology company ecosystem and corporate relocations drive volume there, while Dallas benefits from major telecommunications and financial services headquarters, and Houston's energy sector giants have invested heavily in cloud modernization programs that generate consistent platform engineering demand.
Are there remote cloud platform engineer jobs in Texas?
Yes, and more than most fields. Cloud platform engineering is inherently infrastructure-focused work that translates well to distributed teams, so remote arrangements are common. About 67% of cloud platform engineer openings tied to Texas are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting how normalized distributed work has become in this discipline. Platform automation, monitoring, and architecture design tasks are the functions most frequently offered as fully remote.
How can I get hired as a cloud platform engineer in Texas with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a site reliability engineer associate or junior DevOps role at a large Texas employer, then moving laterally into platform work. Dell Technologies, AT&T, and major Houston-area energy firms run structured early-career technology programs that accept candidates without industry experience if they hold a relevant degree or an AWS or Azure foundational certification. Building a public portfolio on GitHub demonstrating Terraform configurations and Kubernetes deployments gives candidates from adjacent roles like systems administrator or software developer a concrete edge in Texas interviews.
Where can I find and apply to cloud platform engineer jobs in Texas?
You can find and apply to cloud platform engineer jobs in Texas on Migrate Mate, which lists current Texas openings across Austin, Dallas, Houston, and other markets in the state. Search the listings for roles that match your experience level and specialization, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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