DevOps Engineer – Terraform & Ansible

San Jose, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 12 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client provider of digital technology and transformation information technology and services

Position: DevOps Engineer Terraform & Ansible

Location: San Jose CA

Duration: 6 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Job Description

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.

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience with hybrid cloud or virtualized infrastructure.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure integration tools.

Production Service Engineer

The Challenge

Seeking as UNIX Administrator with excellent technical process and automation skills to be part of High-Performance Cloud Operations Team.
As an Infrastructure Administrator this person is responsible for the daily administration of Linux and Unix servers in a business application environment.
This includes general system administration tasks software and hardware support system configuration system monitoring.
This person must have excellent Linux/Unix administration experience with customer relation skills.
Candidate should be able to work with business application administrators helping troubleshoot their applications and guide them with standard methodologies.
Candidate must be able to express thoughts clearly and capable of working in a team or as a sole contributor. Individual should be self-motivated with very good communication skills.
Main point responsible for the overall operability resiliency performance and capacity of owned production services.

What youll do

System Administration - Would be responsible for the day-to-day administration of all Linux based servers.
This includes monitoring the trouble ticket queue system troubleshooting hardware and software system changes scripting patching system performance monitoring system sizing system integration upgrade implementation and hardware diagnostics.
Application support Would work with application administrators to help fix and fine-tune applications and also if required guide application administrators in standard processes related to using the underlying UNIX infrastructure.
Documentation Maintain all system documentation.

What you need to succeed

Unix/Linux System Administration: In-depth experience with Unix/Linux servers (especially Suse AIX RHEL CentOS) for installation configuration patching and troubleshooting.
Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in scripting (Bash Python) and automation tools (Ansible etc.) to streamline deployments and manage configurations.
Demonstrable ability to perform UNIX builds
Understanding of RedHat Satellite IBM NIM or SUSE Manager for patch management.
Networking Knowledge: Strong grasp of networking (TCP/IP DNS SSH etc.) and system connectivity for effective troubleshooting in distributed environments.
Working knowledge of Virtual machine management (VmWare OpenShift) TCP/IP functionality networking Remote administration cloning migration etc.
Security Best Practices: Expertise in system security user access controls OS hardening patch management and compliance.
Soft Skills: Strong communication teamwork and problem-solving skills to collaborate across teams and resolve complex issues efficiently.
Operational experience with Ansible and Terraform are beneficial.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client provider of digital technology and transformation information technology and services Position: DevOps En...