Software Engineer - Kubernetes

About Gartner IT:
Join a world-class team of skilled engineers who build creative digital solutions to support our colleagues and clients. We make a broad organizational impact by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that power Gartner. Gartner IT values its culture of nonstop innovation, an outcome-driven approach to success, and the notion that great ideas can come from anyone on the team.

About this role:

The Cloud Centre of Excellence Team is responsible for developing Gartner’s capabilities in automating and streamlining IT infrastructure processes and tasks while improving Gartner’s capabilities and service offerings with greater self-service abilities using public cloud platforms and open-source technologies.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of application developers, operations engineers, architects to understand project requirements and translate them into automated solutions that you build.
• Collaborate with colleagues to support and improve architecture, systems, processes, standards and tools.
• Lead technical discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, and high availability in the cloud
• Design, implement, and maintain reusable compute, storage, network, and security components using infrastructure as code.
• Build reusable workflows / pipelines for application Deployments.
• Write and maintain code for automating the creation of scalable/resilient systems/infrastructure with a focus on immutability and containers.
• Develop, implement, and test automated data backup and recovery, and disaster recovery procedures across multiple services and platforms.
• Write and maintain clear, concise documentation, runbooks and operational standards including systems architecture and infrastructure diagrams.
• Assist development teams in the creation and understanding of automated application configurations, and maintaining the service catalog part of company’s internal developer portal.
• Ensure all solutions are cost-effective and properly instrumented with telemetry to ensure holistic monitoring.
• Troubleshoot, resolve, and report issues in the development, test and production environments.
• Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant distributed systems.
• Continuously identify, adopt, & refine best practices.
• Educate/mentor product teams and junior engineers.

What you will need :

2+ years’ experience in AWS cloud, Kubernetes, and DevOps positions.

Must have:

• Experience with containerized application builds and deployment orchestration using GitOps, primarily using Argo CD and Flux CD.
• Knowledge of infra automation and management through GitOps (Terraform / Open Tofu) is required.
• Exposure to Cloud Native tools for delivery such as Argo (CD, Rollouts), Kustomize, OCI and similar technologies.
• Good scripting experience (python, shell, groovy etc) is preferred.
• AWS and Kubernetes certification is a plus.

Who you are:

• Effective time management skills and ability to meet deadlines
• Exceptional communication skills, to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Excellent organization, multitasking, and prioritization skills
• Ability to work independently and with a team
• Good communication skills and ability to work with global teams to define and deliver on projects
• Intellectual curiosity, passion for technology and keeping up with new trends

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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Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?

Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work .

What do we offer?

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers.

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

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