DevOps Engineer – Terraform & Ansible

Job Title: DevOps Engineer - Terraform & Ansible
Location: Onsite - San Jose CA Rate: $70/Hr

For this role SUSE hands-on experience is mandatory not optional.

Core Mandatory:

• SUSE (SLES) Administration (installation builds patching troubleshooting)
• UNIX Builds from scratch
• Production Support (monitoring performance capacity)
• Patching tools (SUSE Manager / Satellite / NIM)
• Bash/Python Scripting
• Networking (TCP/IP DNS SSH)
• OS Hardening & Access Control

strongly Preferred (but not absolute mandate):

AIX / RHEL / CentOS (in addition to SUSE)

Ansible Automation

VMware / OpenShift

About the Role
We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer to join our team in building and maintaining scalable infrastructure solutions. This is not a typical Linux SysAdmin role we need someone with engineering depth who can design deploy and maintain automation workflows across our cloud and on-prem environments.

Key Responsibilities
Design develop and maintain Terraform modules and infrastructure automation pipelines.
Develop Ansible playbooks and roles deploy and maintain automation across production and non-production environments.
Manage troubleshoot and support RHEL Linux systems; SUSE/AIX experience is a plus.
Integrate infrastructure components using Python scripting for automation and process efficiency.
Collaborate with the development team to deploy and manage applications in OpenShift or virtualized environments.
Participate in configuration management infrastructure standardization and operational improvements.
Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues; support maintenance and minor OS-level tasks.

Must-Have Skills
Terraform - hands-on development and deployment experience.
Ansible - deep experience building roles and automation playbooks.
RHEL Linux - experience supporting and troubleshooting production environments.
Python - basic to moderate scripting experience for automation.
Proven ability to work in an engineering-focused DevOps-oriented environment.
Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive growth-oriented mindset.
Basic UNIX skills -Somebody that can jump into the OS and do support/maintenance -not going to be the major part of this role.
Client primarily deal with RHEL
Exposure to SUSE or AIX environments.
Strong Terraform Ansible experience some OpenShift/VM knowledge and the ability to integrate all components into a working system.

Required Skills:

SUSEUnixPythonBASHNetworking