Lead Software Engineer (Azure/Devops)

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:

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 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 7+ years of experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Azure cloud. The candidate should have strong qualitative and quantitative problem-solving skills along with high on ownership and accountability

7+ years of Information Technology experience with 5 years of relevant experience in Azure Cloud, automation and DevOps tools.

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

Experience in Networking concepts

Experience in administration and operations of Kubernetes - EKS, AKS, OpenShift

Experience in GitOps - ArgoCD, FluxCD , Helm, Weave

Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools - Terraform, Ansible, Cloudformation, Azure Resource Manager

Experience in building automation pipelines with CI/CD tools - Jenkins, Git, Docker

Scripting/Programming - Shell, Bash, PowerShell, Python Groovy, Kubectl

Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills

Ability to participate in a rotational on-call support

What you will get:

Competitive compensation package

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

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

Extensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans

Hybrid environment with flexibility, remote work

Parental (Maternal and Paternity) leave

Gartner Gives Charity Match

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Health and wellness related allowance programs

401k with corporate match

Collaborative, team-oriented culture that embraces diversity

Professional development and unlimited growth opportunities