Job Description
Position Details:
We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Automation Engineer to work in a fast-paced development environment. This role will focus on the automation delivery of IT infrastructure utilizing, but not limited to, Python and Ansible. The role will help champion automation across the technology group. You will work collaboratively with Technical Leads, Engineers, Architects, and Operations to develop product design and deliver solutions. You will work with Product Managers by giving feedback on planning roadmaps and backlog priorities. The ideal candidate has experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting automated solutions.
You Will:
· Develop and deploy an automation framework to deliver IT infrastructure services that will replace time consuming, error-prone, manual repetitive configuration and provisioning tasks.
· Design, develop, build, test, and deploy a workload to production. With knowledge and understanding of engineering best practices such as TDD, trunk-based development, frequent incremental iterative deployments, pair programming, etc.
· Perform automated lifecycle management leveraging configuration management tools such as Puppet, Ansible, or comparable toolsets.
· Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) through a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline utilizing tools such as Terraform, GitHub Actions, or comparable toolsets.
· Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, other technical teams, and management to expand the role and capability of automation in IT infrastructure.
· Recognize inefficient processes, drive projects forward, provide technical updates and communicate clearly and transparently in written and verbal formats.
You Have:
· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
· 3+ years of experience as a software engineer
· 3+ years of experience coding in higher-level programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, or C++) at an intermediate or higher level with Object-Oriented Programming concepts, data structures, algorithms, runtime complexity, as well as unit and functional test methodologies.
· 2+ years of experience working with a configuration management platform such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or similar
· 2+ years of experience with Linux and Windows operating systems.
· Strong experience with DevOps tools such as Terraform, Packer, GitHub Actions, Git, GitHub
· Strong Experience with hybrid-cloud environments with on-premises infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure etc.
· Hands-on experience with REST APIs and JSON payloads for various automation tasks relevant to infrastructure activities
· Strong critical thinking and problem-solving, and the ability to debug complex-cross systems problems, and document root cause including remediation and detection
· Ability to process new concepts and technologies quickly, has a desire to continually learn and develop new skills.
