Senior Automation & DevOps Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• IaC Development: Write, test, and maintain robust Terraform scripts to automate the migration of repository configurations (users, groups, repos) from Gerrit to GitLab.
• API Integration: Utilize the GitLab REST API extensively to programmatically apply configurations and validate migrations.
• Proxy Service Coding: Develop and maintain a custom RelayProxy translation service (or configure tools like nGrok) to ingest GitLab webhooks and distribute them to multiple downstream Jenkins pipelines.
• Execution & Testing: Execute the bulk reconfiguration of 40+ repositories utilizing the developed automation templates, reducing the current 2-hour-per-repo manual effort.
• Operational Support: Provide ongoing maintenance, monitor proxy service health, and troubleshoot pipeline trigger failures.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 3 to 6 years of hands-on experience in DevOps engineering and CI/CD optimization.
• Strong proficiency in writing and deploying Terraform code in production environments.
• Hands-on experience managing and integrating GitLab (REST API) and Jenkins .
• Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Bash, Go) for developing intermediate webhook services.
• Understanding of network proxies, routing, and payload translation mechanisms.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced pod environment and troubleshoot complex integration bottlenecks