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This hands-on individual-contributor role requires proactive ownership, structured problem-solving, and effective cross-functional collaboration.\nFUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES\nCloud Infrastructure & Automation:\nDesign, provision, and operate secure, reliable Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes platform capabilities supporting application and data workloads.\nDevelop reusable Terraform modules and automated provisioning controls to increase Infrastructure as Code coverage and reduce configuration drift and manual intervention.\nAutomate platform configuration, upgrades, health checks, backup validation, recovery procedures, and recurring operational tasks.\nApply cloud governance, least-privilege access, secrets management, infrastructure-state protection, and secure network and identity patterns throughout the platform lifecycle.\nCI/CD, GitOps & Artifact Management:\nSupport engineers and researchers to build and run CI/CD workflows using GitLab CI and/or Jenkins; track deployment success rate, lead time, rollback frequency, and failed-change rate.\nImplement consistent GitOps deployment, environment promotion, drift detection, and rollback practices using Argo CD and Helm.\nAdminister GitLab and JFrog Artifactory with appropriate access, retention, artifact integrity, promotion, and traceability controls.\nEmbed automated testing, quality gates, SBOM generation, image and dependency scanning, signing, provenance, and change controls where applicable.\nObservability, Reliability & Operations:\nEstablish monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards using Prometheus; define and monitor service-level indicators and objectives with service owners.\nMaintain centralized logging, search, and diagnostic workflows with the Elastic Stack across cloud, Kubernetes, delivery, and data workloads.\nParticipate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvement; use operational metrics to improve recovery time and deployment success rate. Any formal on-call responsibilities will be defined separately within the operating model.\nProactive Ownership & Collaboration:\nProactively identify reliability, security, performance, cost, and delivery improvements; prioritize them and drive changes through to completion.\nMaintain platform standards, technical documentation, operational runbooks, reusable patterns, and knowledge-sharing material.\nCollaborate with software, data, security, architecture, and infrastructure teams; communicate progress, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs clearly.\nINDUSTRY / DOMAIN\nDevOps / Cloud Platform Engineering / CI/CD & Data Pipelines\nRequired Knowledge and Experience\nAt least 5 years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or a related field, including at least 2 years operating production cloud or Kubernetes platforms.\nHands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting production workloads in Microsoft Azure.\nStrong practical experience with Terraform, including reusable modules, state management, review controls, testing, environment promotion, and drift management.\nExperience designing, implementing, and maintaining secure CI/CD workflows, automated testing, release controls, rollback, and environment promotion processes.\nSound Kubernetes fundamentals, including workloads, services, configuration, secrets, access control, networking, deployments, and troubleshooting.\nStrong working knowledge of Git, branching strategies, code review, and version-controlled infrastructure and configuration.\nProficiency in Linux administration, networking fundamentals, and production-system troubleshooting.\nScripting and automation capability using Python, Bash or a comparable language.\nExperience monitoring and troubleshooting production services using metrics, logs, and alerts, with the ability to support incident analysis and durable corrective action.\nDemonstrated proactive ownership, structured problem-solving, clear documentation, and effective collaboration across technical teams.\nPreferred and Advantageous Qualifications\nA bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience; a master’s degree is advantageous.\nStrongly preferred: experience with Argo CD and Helm for GitOps-based Kubernetes delivery, together with GitLab CI and/or Jenkins.\nStrongly preferred: experience with JFrog Artifactory, Prometheus, and the Elastic Stack in production environments.\nAdvantageous: experience with AKS; Azure networking, Entra ID or workload identity, Key Vault, and private endpoints; policy as code; SBOMs, image and dependency scanning, signing, and provenance; restricted or air-gapped environments; or data platforms.\nAt TII, we help society to overcome its biggest hurdles through a rigorous approach to scientific discovery and inquiry, using state-of-the-art facilities and collaboration with leading international institutions. 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