About the Role: Agivant is seeking a Lead Automation Engineer to head a specialized 4-person engineering pod dedicated to our Gigamon engagement. This role focuses heavily on script tooling optimizations, specifically bridging and automating complex CI/CD and repository management workflows. You will architect solutions, mentor a team of three Senior Engineers, and ensure the successful delivery of critical automation milestones.
Key Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership: Lead the design and implementation of automated migration strategies for a portfolio of 40+ source code repositories.
- Terraform Architecture: Architect and standardize a set of Terraform templates to automate the migration of users, groups, and repositories from Gerrit to GitLab, eliminating manual configuration overhead.
- Service Development: Design an intermediary web service (RelayProxy) that translates a limited set of standard GitLab webhooks into multiple Jenkins job triggers.
- System Integration: Deeply integrate with the GitLab REST API and GUI configurations to ensure seamless program execution.
- Ongoing Support: Establish SLAs and provide ongoing operational support and troubleshooting for the deployed proxy services and Terraform modules post-cutover.
Requirements
Qualifications & Requirements:
- 6 to 8 years of proven experience in DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and build automation.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes Cluseter management is extremely useful.
- Kubernetes certification will add lot of value (CKA).
- Expert-level proficiency in Terraform and creating reusable modules.
- Strong administrative and integration experience with GitLab and Jenkins, specifically handling webhooks and CI/CD triggers.
- Experience in backend scripting/development (Python, Go, or Node.js) to build custom translation proxies or intermediate API services.
- Prior experience migrating source control systems (ideally Gerrit to GitLab).
- Excellent communication skills to interface directly with client stakeholders and manage pod deliverables.
