Senior Infrastructure as Code Engineer (Terraform, GitHub)

Job Title: IaC SME (Infrastructure as Code Subject Matter Expert)

Overview

You will be working on secure scalable systems that process patient records and enable telemedicine solutions contributing to enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain reusable versioned Terraform modules aligned with enterprise standards (naming tagging logging networking).
  
• Implement GitHub-based delivery practices including PR gates mandatory reviews branch protection release tagging and environment promotion (Dev Test Prod).
  
• Develop CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions including automated linting validation planning security scanning approvals and controlled deployments.
  
• Establish IaC engineering standards including:
  • Module design guidelines
    
  • Documentation and examples
    
  • Contribution rules
    
  • Versioning strategies
    
• Integrate security and policy controls into pipelines:
  • Policy-as-Code
    
  • Security scanning
    
  • Secrets management
    
  • RBAC
    
• Improve automation and module reuse to reduce provisioning lead time and enable self-service infrastructure patterns with governance guardrails.
  
• Collaborate with platform and operations teams to:
  • Map requirements to Terraform inputs/variables
    
  • Drive adoption through coaching documentation and playbooks
    
• Manage and enhance Terraform state management:
  • Remote backends
    
  • State locking
    
  • Drift detection
    
  • Recovery procedures
    
  • Auditing
    

Domain Experience (Preferred)

• Utilities
  
• Healthcare
  
• Insurance
  
• BFSI (Banking Financial Services Insurance)
  

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
  
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
  
• Ability to mentor and guide engineering teams
  
• High attention to detail and quality
  
• Ability to work in fast-paced Agile environments
  

Job Requirements

• 610 years of experience in Infrastructure / Cloud Engineering
  
• 36 years of hands-on Terraform experience in production environments
  

Technical Expertise

• Strong Terraform knowledge:
  • Modules remote state state locking
    
  • Workspaces dependency management
    
  • Provider/versioning strategies
    
• Strong GitHub proficiency:
  • Branching strategies
    
  • PR governance and code reviews
    
  • Merge policies and protected branches
    
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions:
  • terraform fmt validate plan apply workflows
    
  • Environment promotion strategies
    
  • Approvals and secrets handling
    
• Cloud platforms:
  • Azure (preferred); AWS/GCP acceptable
    
  • Core services: networking identity compute storage policy/guardrails
    
• Secure IaC practices:
  • Integration with secret stores
    
  • RBAC / least privilege
    
  • Policy enforcement (OPA Conftest Sentinel Azure Policy)
    
• Troubleshooting:
  • State drift issues
    
  • Provider authentication problems
    
  • Plan/apply failures
    
  • Concurrency and locking issues
    
  • CI/CD pipeline failures
    
• Strong ability to translate requirements into scalable module designs and guide teams on best practices
  

Education

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Technology or equivalent (flexible/optional)
  

Certifications (Preferred)

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
  
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate