DevOps Engineer – Terraform & Ansible

Please note that the client is looking for local candidates only. Kindly focus on submitting PST candidates or local profiles who can go onsite from Day 1.

Job Title: DevOps Engineer Terraform & Ansible
Location: Onsite San Jose CA
Rate: $70 75/hr on C2C (Max)

Make this a priority and share suitable local profiles at the earliest.

Responsibilities
Work with Terraform - Extensive skills with terraform developing out our terraform platform.
Work with Ansible - deeper experience not just pushing code; candidate must have created deployed and developed Ansible across the entire stack.
Basic OS support and maintenance - Somebody that can jump into the OS a little bit and do support/maintenance -not going to be the major part of this role - as they primarily deal with RHEL.

SUSE and AIX
Python - Candidate should be able to jump in and do some coding themselves to integrate components.
Candidate must have very extensive skills with Terraform Ansible and either OpenShift or VM and be able to tie it all together

integrate components and make the system work end-to-end
Configuration management

configuration management is going to be about components need somebody that can jump in and work with it not just follow runbooks

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.