DevOps Engineer / Senior DevOps Engineer - Platform

About the role

IFS is looking for experienced DevOps engineers to join its growing R&D Cloud Engineering team. DevOps engineers ensure that software developed at IFS R&D runs effectively in production and drive automation from framework development to customer deployment. The role leads the design, development, deployment and maintenance of tooling and automation that supports continuous integration, testing and deployment with industry best practices.

Key responsibilities

• Identify opportunities for new or improved automation and produce designs and plans to address them
• Implement GitOps / DevOps automation on the IFS shared multi-tenant cloud platform, supporting new application deployments and rollouts
• Maintain and expand existing automation and related processes
• Create documentation, presentations and training material, and share knowledge with colleagues
• Engage with stakeholders and contribute to market research and competitive analysis

Required profile

• Demonstrable enterprise-level experience building large, globally deployed multi-tenant cloud systems and designing DevOps / GitOps automation
• 3-8 years of experience in CI/CD, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, containerization and scripting
• University degree or equivalent professional qualification in software/system engineering
• Good communicator, team player with experience in a geographically dispersed team, and willingness to learn new technologies

Required skills

• CI/CD tools such as GitLab, Bitbucket, GitHub Actions, ADO, Jenkins or Bamboo
• Kubernetes and Helm
• Terraform and Ansible
• Azure (AKS, networking, firewalls, front door, container registry, managed identities, storage, AI services) or AWS / GCP
• Linux/Unix/Windows, GitOps with ArgoCD and Crossplane
• Desirable: MongoDB (Atlas), Kafka (Confluent), QA and test automation experience