Overview

An extraordinarily talented group of individuals work together every day to drive TNS' success, from both professional and personal perspectives. Come join the excellence!

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, deployment, operation, and lifecycle of network automation applications and supporting services.
• Design and operate containerized applications on Kubernetes using Helm, Argo, and Terraform.
• Own the Nautobot platform stack, including Python/Django, Celery, uWSGI/NGINX, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, and GitLab CI/CD.
• Lead platform upgrades, plugin lifecycle management, performance tuning, capacity planning, resiliency, and observability improvements.
• Build and manage application images, containers, and deployment workflows.
• Own GitLab standards, branching strategy, runners, CI/CD pipelines, release promotion, and software delivery practices.
• Establish reliable release processes across development, test, and production environments.
• Partner with Global Systems and cloud teams to evolve AWS infrastructure, hosting models, scalability, disaster recovery, and operational support.
• Own and manage AWS infrastructure supporting network automation platforms, including IAM roles and policies, EKS, EC2, VPC networking, security groups, S3, load balancing, and platform monitoring.
• Embed DevSecOps practices, including SAST, dependency scanning, container scanning, and infrastructure security validation.
• Ensure platform and deployment practices align with corporate security policies and audit requirements.
• Serve as the senior technical authority for platform engineering and DevOps within the Automation team.
• Set engineering standards and guardrails, mentor developers, and influence the future of network automation at TNS.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive IT engineering experience, including 5+ years of hands-on DevOps or platform engineering.
• Proven experience deploying and operating production applications on Kubernetes.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, Helm, Docker, Git, GitLab administration, runners, and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience including IAM, EKS, EC2, VPCs, S3, security controls, monitoring, and cloud networking.
• Hands-on Experience operating distributed application platforms using Kubernetes, Celery, Redis, and containers.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices and security scanning across the software lifecycle.
• Experience supporting highly available production applications with demanding operational requirements.
• Ability to lead architecture decisions, solve complex platform problems, and guide engineers through implementation.
• Nautobot, NetBox, or comparable network source-of-truth platforms.
• Network automation and orchestration, including Ansible.
• Python and Django applications; PostgreSQL or MongoDB.
• GitLab Runner architecture and management; Argo-based deployment workflows.
• Enterprise platforms operating in regulated environments.
• Within the first 12 months, you will:
• Lead the transition of the Nautobot AWS/Kubernetes platform from vendor-managed operations to a TNS-owned and operated service, including architecture, deployment, upgrades, security, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Standardize GitLab workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and release management.
• Provide clear technical leadership for platform engineering and automation infrastructure.
• Lead the AWS architecture and migration approach for applications, services, and infrastructure moving from on-premises and legacy environments.