Job Description

Position: DevOps Engineer

Location: Dallas, TX (Hybrid)

Contract Duration: Initially 12 Months+ Possibility for full time

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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 / Redpanda Message Queue Technologies
• Deploying immutable infrastructure

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