Senior DevOps Engineer (4+ years in DevOps, AWS, EKS, Terraform)

About Gartner Digital Markets:

Gartner Digital Markets is a business unit within Gartner. Our mission is to help small businesses make the right technology choices and find the tools they need to grow, optimize, and become more effective at what they do. The business comprises four top brands—Capterra, Software Advice, GetApp and UpCity. For candidates interested in taking their next career step in the technology space, Gartner Digital Markets offers the fast pace and excitement of working for a startup, the stability, and resources of a large, established organization, and the opportunity to be on the front lines of innovation in an industry that is always growing and transforming.

About this role:

Gartner Digital Markets is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior DevOps Engineer, Advanced to join our Cloud and DevOps team. This role involves collaborating with architects, software engineers, and operations teams to support the design, deployment, management, and operation of our development, test, and production infrastructure. You will leverage your expertise in public cloud platforms (AWS), Kubernetes orchestration, and Python scripting to drive automation and innovation. You will play a critical role in enhancing our DevOps processes by incorporating AI-driven automation to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the design, deployment, and management of scalable cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS and other public cloud platforms.
• Architect, implement, and maintain Kubernetes clusters for container orchestration and manage application deployments.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools using Python to streamline infrastructure management, deployment, and monitoring.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, architects, and operations teams to support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and Jenkins.
• Implement best practices for cloud security, compliance, and governance within the DevOps lifecycle.
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize cloud resources to meet service level objectives.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote knowledge sharing within the team.
• Participate in capacity planning, load testing, and incident response, including 24x7 on-call rotations.
• Research and evaluate new cloud technologies and DevOps tools to continuously improve the infrastructure and automation capabilities.
• Assist in managing Kubernetes clusters and improving application deployment processes.
• Work with engineering teams to support the DevOps execution strategy for different projects.
  
  

What you will need:

Must-Haves :

• 4+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud engineering, or DevOps roles with a strong focus on AWS and public cloud services.
• AWS hands-on experience (AWS highly preferred)
• Kubernetes experience (especially cluster management and application deployments)
• Terraform experience (must have worked with modules)
• Linux experience, hands-on CLI experience
• CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub actions)
  
  

Nice to have :

• Observability experience: DataDog, Splunk
• Security experience: AWS WAF, CrowdStrike, Wiz, Snyk
• HELM experience
  
  

Who you are:

• Excellent Communication and Prioritization skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across the organization.
• Ability to work independently or within a team, proactively, in a fast-paced AGILE-SCRUM environment.
• Owns success – Takes responsibility for successful delivery of solutions.
• Strong desire to improve upon their skills in software development, frameworks, and technologies.
  
  

Don’t meet every single requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or other roles.

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