Senior DevOps Engineer: GitLab CI/CD & Terraform

System One, Inc.; Lafayette (LA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

System One, Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Lafayette, Louisiana to lead CI/CD modernization efforts. You will design GitLab CI/CD pipelines, replace Jenkins/UCD workflows, and build reusable Terraform modules for automated provisioning.

You will collaborate with security, operations, and engineering teams to ensure smooth migrations and secure deployments. The role requires strong scripting, experience with AWS, and a track record of migrating enterprise pipelines without disrupting

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, CI/CD, or platform engineering.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD, runners, templates, variables, environments, artifacts, and deployment controls.
• Strong scripting skills: Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Groovy.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing Jenkins pipelines, UCD deployment processes, scripts, integrations, and dependencies.
• Design and implement GitLab CI/CD pipelines to replace Jenkins and UCD workflows.
• Develop reusable GitLab pipeline templates for build, testing, security scanning, artifact management, and deployment.
• Create and maintain reusable Terraform modules for automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Migrate prioritized pipelines across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Integrate GitLab pipelines with cloud platforms, artifact repositories, security scanning tools, secrets management, and monitoring.
• Implement approval gates, RBAC, auditability, and deployment controls.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, Terraform issues, environment problems, and deployment dependencies.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, testing, and operations teams to validate migrated pipelines.
• Document current state findings, target state architecture, migration procedures, and rollback plans.
• Provide deployment support and hypercare after each migration wave.
• Conduct technical walkthroughs and knowledge transfer sessions.

Skills

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Jenkins

Scripting (Python/Bash/Powershell/Groo

AWS

Git concepts

RBAC & secure CI/CD

Tools

Jenkins

IBM UrbanCode Deploy

Terraform

AWS

Job description

System One, Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Lafayette, Louisiana to lead CI/CD modernization efforts. You will design GitLab CI/CD pipelines, replace Jenkins/UCD workflows, and build reusable Terraform modules for automated provisioning.

You will collaborate with security, operations, and engineering teams to ensure smooth migrations and secure deployments. The role requires strong scripting, experience with AWS, and a track record of migrating enterprise pipelines without disrupting