Senior DevOps Engineer

About Project Marty:

• Project Marty is a self-service VM provisioning platform for RWS that replaces manual IT requests with a GitOps flow.
• It is built on AWS first, with plans to extend to GCP and Azure, and integrates with Backstage.
• The Terraform and Ansible pairing forms the architectural heart of the platform.

Job Purpose:

• You are the Senior DevOps contractor on Marty, serving as the technical anchor for delivery velocity and engineering patterns.
• You will lead the build of the AWS pipeline and set architectural conventions for the platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead delivery of the phase 1 AWS pipeline end to end, including repo scaffolding and provisioning workflow.
• Own the Terraform and Ansible design to ensure declarative and reproducible VM state.
• Build the GitOps flow on GitHub Actions with OIDC-based authentication and implement full lifecycle management.

Skills & Experience:

• Deep hands-on infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and configuration management with Ansible.
• Proven track record building end-to-end provisioning and lifecycle pipelines.
• Hands-on cloud engineering on AWS, with experience in CI/CD and GitOps workflows.