Sr. DevOps Engineer - AWS (Irving, TX)

Hiring near our US Centers of Excellence in Irving, TX

Hybrid, flexible environment

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 the role:

This role will focus on automating and supporting IT infrastructure and application deployment processes and tasks to improve our capabilities and service offerings with greater self-service abilities using infra-as-code principles, DevOps tools and open-source technologies.

What you’ll do:

• Ensure Gartner’s enterprise application environments are stable, reliable and secure. Meet and exceed SLA's/OLA's.

• Support technology leaders to advance our application platforms and automation pipelines.

• Provide and support the tactical and strategic directions for Gartner's cloud and application infrastructure.

• Manage and consolidate Gartner’s application deployments to drive down costs.

• Provide status reports to the Team Manager, Sr. Director and  VP of Application Services in Enterprise Technology and Operations.

• Support our security, performance, observability and resiliency frameworks.

• Support AppDev teams to ensure delivery of desired business outcomes.

• Maintain Service Levels and department goals for Incident and Problem resolution.

• Support automation efforts across DevOps team utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), micro service-based cloud deployments and CI & CD.

• Work on container orchestration technologies [EKS].

• Work on Cloud Providers like AWS and Azure.

What you’ll need:

• Strong IT professional with 5-7 years of experience in DevOps and Cloud. The candidate should have strong qualitative and quantitative problem-solving skills along with high on ownership and accountability.

• 5+ years of Information Technology experience with 3 years of relevant experience in AWS (or Azure/GCP), automation and DevOps tools.

• Operating System proficiency - Linux or Windows (one or both per role needs)

• Network proficiency – IPv4, Load Balancing (ALB/ELB), Iptables, eBPF, Istio (1 or more)

• Experience in administration, operations, and consolidation of Kubernetes infrastructure and workloads - EKS, AKS, OpenShift (1 or more)

• Experience in GitOps - ArgoCD, FluxCD , Kustomize, Helm (1 or more)

• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools - Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation (2 or more)

• Experience in building automation pipelines with CI/CD tools – Jenkins, Docker, Tekton (2 or more)

• Scripting/Programming – Python, Node, Bash, Groovy, CDK, CUE, Kubectl (2 or more)

• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills

• Ability to participate in a rotational on-call support

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

What you will get:

• Competitive compensation.

• Limitless growth and learning opportunities.

• Ongoing mentorship and apprenticeship; Leadership courses, development programs, technical courses, certification opportunities and more!

• A collaborative and positive culture - join a diverse team of professionals that are as smart and driven as you.

• A chance to make an impact – your work will contribute directly to our strategy.

• A hybrid work environment—enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.

• 20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year.

• Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plan.

• 401K with corporate match, immediate vesting.

• Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.

• Parental leave.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Gartner Gives Charity Match.

• And much more!

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Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT), we deliver actionable, objective insight that drives smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization’s mission-critical priorities. We’ve grown exponentially since our founding in 1979 and we're proud to have over 19,500 associates globall