Senior DevOps Engineer

Overview

Senior DevOps Engineer for Project Marty, leading the Phase 1 AWS pipeline and architectural conventions. You will anchor delivery velocity, shape engineering patterns, and progressively hand ownership to the internal team. The role focuses on building a GitOps-driven, declarative provisioning platform on AWS, with a path to multi-cloud expansion and backstage integration. You will collaborate with cross-functional owners to accelerate delivery while mentoring engineers and establishing reusable templates and tooling. This is a chance to influence platform standards that scale across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of the phase 1 AWS pipeline (repo scaffolding, Terraform compute module, Ansible configuration, remote state, validation tooling, provisioning workflow)
• Own the Terraform and Ansible design, ensuring declarative, reproducible VM state across lifecycle
• Build GitOps flow on GitHub Actions with OIDC-based authentication and least-privilege IAM
• Implement full lifecycle management: TTL expiry, decommissioning, PR-driven resize, snapshot/restore
• Expose the pipeline as a Backstage Software Template and create JSON schema/documentation for Backstage dependencies
• Mentor and upskill the internal DevOps engineer; conduct structured knowledge transfer
• Coordinate with external dependency owners (Networking, AD/Identity, Security, Operations) to unblock delivery

Key requirements

• Terraform and Ansible expertise with clear handoff between infrastructure provisioning and machine configuration
• Proven track record building end-to-end provisioning and lifecycle pipelines
• Hands-on cloud engineering across compute, storage, IAM/identity and networking (AWS preferred)
• CI/CD as pipeline-as-code using GitHub Actions and OIDC federation
• GitOps / PR-driven workflows as default practice
• Deep Windows Server and Active Directory experience
• Python for validation and tooling
• Strong English communication and distributed teamwork
• Mentoring engineers and transferring ownership

• effective collaboration in distributed teams
• mentoring and knowledge transfer
• strong written and verbal communication
• Terraform
• Ansible
• GitHub Actions

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