Lead DevOps Engineer – Late Shift, 2 PM - 10 PM

Role Overview

• Drive infrastructure standardization and operational excellence by designing and developing scalable automation frameworks in Python that enable consistent and repeatable deployments across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Accelerate infrastructure provisioning by building and enhancing Terraform code-generation platforms using Python and Jinja2, enabling teams to produce validated, environment-specific infrastructure code from reusable templates.
• Improve system reliability and compliance by developing and maintaining Puppet modules, manifests, and Hiera configurations that manage Linux and Windows environments at scale.
• Increase operational efficiency across Windows platforms by creating robust PowerShell automation solutions for server management, Active Directory administration, and hybrid cloud integrations.
• Simplify complex infrastructure workflows by developing internal automation tools, command-line utilities, and APIs that empower engineering teams to self-service common operational tasks.
• Enhance the speed and safety of infrastructure delivery by integrating automation frameworks with CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated validation, testing, and deployment of infrastructure changes.
• Improve software quality and reduce deployment risk by implementing comprehensive testing strategies for infrastructure code, including unit testing, linting, and integration testing.
• Partner closely with cloud, platform, and application teams to identify manual processes, eliminate operational toil, and drive automation-first solutions across the organization.
• Enable long-term scalability and maintainability by creating clear documentation, standards, and runbooks for automation frameworks and infrastructure templates.
• Contribute to a strong engineering culture by participating in code reviews, sharing best practices, and continuously improving the quality, security, and maintainability of automation solutions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Python development experience — not scripting, but structured, testable application code
• Strong understanding of Python packaging, virtual environments, dependency management (pip, Poetry), and code quality tooling (pylint, black, mypy)
• Experience building CLI tools and automation frameworks using Python (Click, Typer, or similar)
• Hands-on experience with Jinja2 templating — building reusable, parameterised templates for configuration and infrastructure code generation
• Experience with pytest for unit and integration testing of automation code
• Strong Terraform proficiency: module design, state management, remote backends, workspaces, and dependency graphs
• Proven experience generating Terraform HCL programmatically using Python and Jinja2 — building template-driven pipelines that produce valid, linted, plan-ready infrastructure code
• Familiarity with Terraform tooling: tflint, tfsec, terraform-docs, Terragrunt, or Atlantis
• Understanding of Terraform provider internals and resource lifecycle management
• Hands-on Puppet experience: writing manifests and modules, Hiera data hierarchies, node classification, and r10k / Code Manager workflows
• Experience managing mixed Linux and Windows environments with Puppet at scale
• Familiarity with puppet-lint, rspec-puppet, and automated Puppet module testing pipelines
• Understanding of Puppet Enterprise or open-source Puppet Server administration
• Proficient PowerShell scripting for Windows Server administration, task automation, and hybrid cloud integrations (AWS Tools for PowerShell, Azure PowerShell)
• Experience writing reusable PowerShell modules, functions, and error-handling patterns
• Familiarity with Pester for PowerShell unit testing
• Experience automating Active Directory, Group Policy, or Windows networking tasks via PowerShell
• Solid AWS experience: EC2, EKS/ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch — understanding of services as automation targets
• Familiarity with CI/CD platforms and integrating infrastructure code pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Comfortable working with Linux and Windows Server in production environments.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• EC2
• Jenkins
• Linux
• Node.js
• Puppet
• Python
• RSpec
• Terraform

Benefits

• Enjoy NICE-FLEX! At NICE, we work according to the NICE-FLEX hybrid model, which enables maximum flexibility: 2 days working from the office and 3 days of remote work, each week. Naturally, office days focus on face-to-face meetings, where teamwork and collaborative thinking generate innovation, new ideas, and a vibrant, interactive atmosphere.