Devops Engineer

At Radiant Digital, we provide IT solutions and consulting services to help government agencies and businesses in the USA, Canada, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. On the federal side, we support agencies like NASA, the Department of State (DOS), the IRS, ACL, ACF,USDA and many others, along with numerous state and local government agencies.

We work with industries like telecom, healthcare, entertainment, oil and gas offering solutions designed to meet their specific needs. We focus on improving systems, making better use of data, and updating applications to keep up with changing markets.

Position: Devops Engineer

Duration: 12 Months plus

Location: Hybrid - Dallas, TX

Job Description:

Are you passionate about Python? Jubilant about Jenkins? Animated about Ansible? Thrilled by Terraform? Would you like to work with cutting edge Infrastructure Technology on a hybrid private cloud? If so, we’d love to hear from you, as a prospective member of the Infrastructure Automation team.

You will be part of the Automation Team embedded within our Infrastructure function, helping to mature our existing infrastructure automation with an emphasis on Infrastructure-as-Code.

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.

· 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:

o Infrastructure tooling to create the glue

o Defining new workflows to be consumed via self-service

o Developing and managing Go and Python libraries

· Enhancing and expanding our Terraform Enterprise platform through:

o Modular developments of reusable infrastructure components

o Maintaining and expanding a catalogue of reusable infrastructure services

o 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.