Lead DevOps Engineer IaC

Job Title : Lead DevOps Engineer – IaC

Location : Dallas TX USA

In this role, your key responsibilities will be:

Helping to shape and engineer the correct tooling and automation capabilities to enable consumption of our private cloud platform

Defining automation standards, frameworks and reporting

Driving the adoption of Event Based Automation within G-Research

Working with Infrastructure-as-Code principles, to enable the company to expand its private cloud capabilities

Designing and implementing Jenkins pipelines to perform infrastructure automation tasks

Defining, configuring and deploying Jenkins pipelines from code using Jenkins DSL

Using Ansible for orchestration development, and managing our existing codebase:

Infrastructure tooling to create the glue

Defining new workflows to be consumed via self-service

Developing and managing Go and Python libraries

Enhancing and expanding our Terraform Enterprise platform through:

Modular developments of reusable infrastructure components

Maintaining and expanding a catalogue of reusable infrastructure services

Providing Terraform users with best practises for creating their Terraform code

Who are we looking for?

You will be passionate about automation and technology, particularly in the infrastructure space. The successful candidate should be willing to cross-train in multiple IaC technologies and methodologies.

The ideal candidate will have experience:

Deploying Infrastructure as Code

Writing Python and or Go

With CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI and TeamCity

Writing Ansible Playbooks or similar IaC tool

Storing your code in a shared VCS such as GitHub Enterprise

Applying IaC concepts to configuration management and immutable infrastructure

Upskilling in the latest relevant technologies

Desirable skills and knowledge:

Deploying services on Kubernetes.

Writing HCL (Terraform) code

Creating modules / collections in Ansible

Adding automated checks to CI/CD pipelines

Kafka / Red panda Message Queue Technologies

Deploying immutable infrastructure

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