Associate Principal Engineer, Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Total experience: 9 years.
Strong experience in Virtualization Platform Engineering Infrastructure Automation or Systems Engineering.
Must-have expertise in Hyper-V VMware ESXi or KVM-based platforms (OpenStack Proxmox oVirt libvirt).
Strong experience designing and implementing hypervisor automation frameworks for provisioning and managing hosts and virtual machines at scale.
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using declarative and idempotent automation practices.
Experience working with hypervisor-native APIs and automation tools such as vSphere API PowerCLI libvirt APIs or equivalent.
Strong experience managing large-scale virtualization environments (hundreds to thousands of hosts).
Hands-on experience with bare-metal provisioning using PXE/iPXE Kickstart Autoinstall or similar technologies.
Strong knowledge of BMC automation using Redfish APIs iLO iDRAC or equivalent server management technologies.
Experience automating virtual networking including vSwitches Distributed Switches Linux Bridge Open vSwitch (OVS) VLANs and VXLAN.
Experience with storage automation involving Datastores LVM ZFS Ceph or similar storage platforms.
Good understanding of Git-based Infrastructure as Code workflows state management modules drift detection and reconciliation.
Experience automating VM lifecycle management including provisioning cloning snapshots migration image management and template-based deployments.
Strong scripting/programming skills using Python PowerShell Bash or Go for infrastructure automation.
Excellent analytical troubleshooting architectural design communication and stakeholder management skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Design implement and maintain scalable automation frameworks for provisioning and managing hypervisor hosts and virtual machines from bare-metal deployment through lifecycle management.
Build and enhance Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to automate hypervisor configuration VM provisioning networking and storage management.
Develop automation leveraging hypervisor-native APIs (vSphere PowerCLI libvirt OpenStack Proxmox etc.) to manage infrastructure at scale.
Automate bare-metal server provisioning using PXE/iPXE Kickstart Autoinstall and BMC technologies such as Redfish iLO and iDRAC.
Implement and manage virtual networking automation including vSwitches Distributed Switches Linux Bridge Open vSwitch (OVS) VLANs and VXLAN.
Automate storage provisioning and lifecycle management for Datastores LVM ZFS Ceph and related storage platforms.
Design and implement Git-based Infrastructure as Code workflows ensuring version control drift detection testing and reconciliation before production changes.
Manage virtual machine lifecycle operations including template creation cloning snapshots migration image management and resource optimization.
Troubleshoot infrastructure virtualization networking and automation issues perform root cause analysis and implement preventive improvements.
Collaborate with platform engineering infrastructure networking and operations teams to deliver highly available secure and scalable virtualization platforms.
Contribute to architecture decisions automation strategy and platform modernization initiatives for enterprise virtualization environments.
Drive continuous improvements in infrastructure automation operational efficiency platform reliability and engineering best practices.

Qualifications :

Bachelors or masters degree in computer science Information Technology or a related field

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time