IaC & Automation Consultant

Job Description: IaC & Automation Consultant - Lateral Hire (Minimum
Relevant Experience 8 Years)

Overview:
The IaC & Automation Sr Consultant will be responsible for helping the
organization with their infrastructure and platform automation needs.
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 7-8 years of relevant
experience with a strong background in infra/platform development and
hands-on experience with configuration management tools and RESTful
APIs.
This role requires a candidate with strong analytical/problem-solving
skills and a deep understanding of Linux-based infrastructures and
administration. The consultant will be responsible for designing and
implementing automation solutions to improve the efficiency
scalability and security of the organizations infrastructure and
platform.

Primary Responsibilities:
- Design and develop automation scripts using Ansible Python GoLang
and Ruby
- Implement and manage configuration management tools such as Ansible
Terraform or Chef
- Work with RESTful APIs to automate infrastructure and platform tasks
- Manage and maintain Linux-based infrastructures
- Analyze and solve problems related to infrastructure and platform
automation
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members
- Continuously improve and optimize automation processes
- Collaborate with other teams such as Development Operations and
Security to identify opportunities for automation
- Document and maintain automation scripts and processes

Required Skills:
- Strong understanding of infrastructure and platform development
principles and experience with programming languages such as Python
GoLang Ruby and/or Java for developing automation scripts.
- Hands-on experience with at least one configuration management tool
such as Ansible Terraform or Chef. This includes proficiency in
writing playbooks cookbook modules & creating and modifying data
structures.
- Experience with creating troubleshooting and maintaining
automation scripts utilizing libraries and frameworks such as
Pythons Ansible custom module and libraries Chefs knife and
Terraform s provider plugins.
- Working experience with RESTful APIs and understanding of API
integration with automation tools
- Strong experience with Linux-based infrastructures and
administration including proficiency in command-line interface and
shell scripting.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills ability to debug
and troubleshoot complex automation issues
- Strong understanding of Bare-Metal Server Storage (SAN/NAS)
Network Security Enterprise Business Applications and related
technologies
- Experience in leading teams leading solutions during
pursuit/solutioning process
- Experience in preparing end to end architecture diagram for the
solution

Desired Skills:
- Experience with Bash and PowerShell scripting
- Experience with one virtualized platform (VMware/Red Hat/Microsoft)
- Experience with Containers/Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as
Jenkins GitLab or CircleCI
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus
Grafana or ELK Stack
- Experience with Databases and SQL
Exclusions:
- DevOps engineers with public cloud work experience (AWS DevOps
Engineer Azure DevOps Engineer Build and Release DevOps Engineer)
and no prior programming expertise
- System Administrators
- Test Automation Engineers

Required Skills:

ANSIBLERUBYGOLANGSHELL SCRIPTINGAPIJAVAAUTOMATIONVMWAREKUBERNETESLINUXTERRAFORMPYTHON