Senior IaC Engineer - REMOTE

Pay Rate is $100/hr. W2 plus travel expenses in case a candidate needs to travel.

Principle Responsibilities and Role

The InfrastructureasCode (IaC) Advisory Consultant ( Senior IaC Engineer) is responsible for technical leadership design planning leading a team or architecting a solution for IaC creating automated pipelines to provision and configure infrastructure using software development practices such as CI/CD automated testing & version control.

This person has both strong analytical and design skills as well as a good understanding of the infrastructure that is to be provisioned. They engage a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for product and tool specific requirements to achieve customer outcomes. This role is responsible for building the IaC solution for a customer and also to enable them successfully to carry forward the automation implemented as part of Day 1 and Day 2 operations.

DevOps and IaC Foundation

• An experienced practitioner of Agile methodology for software engineering and development
• Has an architecturally sound understanding and experience in the endtoend workflow including service portals and solutioning of infrastructure provisioning on premises and on cloud platforms.
• Knows the tooling and software development concepts necessary for infrastructure automation to deliver quality outcomes
• Has Consulting experience or equivalent consultative experience to assist our customers in advancing their knowledge and practices. This will require leadership in hands on teach to fish engagements presentations to client development staff and mentoring.

Soft Skills

• Collaborate on large team assignments with other automation consultants and assist them with skills and knowledge needed for their assignments
• Ability to contribute to technical workshops that engage the customer gather requirements design and drive solutions
• Possesses effective communication skills to socialize ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner to the customer stakeholders account and automation team members.
• Customerfocused able to manage relationships gain trust and build consensus between stakeholders
• Elicits technical and functional requirements from business and IT stakeholders based on the infrastructure specific solutioning technical and process dependencies security and compliance.
• Validates requirements prototyping and functionality design and oversees creation and quality of proposals that address current and evolving client requirements
• Provides issue resolution as point of contact for technical questions; leads code reviews testing processes and certification of software; facilitates client and internal meetings; presents architecture and design solutions
• Can define work outputs and functional outcomes for a SOW and engagement team
• Provides their expertise and support to other team members across project and presales activities in addition to current engagements
• Awareness of stakeholders and ability to influence outcomes
• Ability to enable others through coaching and pairing

Technical Minimum Required Skills & Experience

General

• Significant handson experience automating the provisioning and configuration of largescale infrastructure
• Ability to work well within and across teams to deliver highquality solutions
• Provisioning and Configuration Tools
• Experience automating Compute/Storage/Network with Ansible (Core and AWX/AAP) and Terraform Enterprise
• Experience with writing declarative code for pipelines and understand why it is beneficial in an IaC approach
• Can articulate and is experienced in the workflow to provision and decommission a VM

CI/CD Concepts and Tools

• Experience using CI/CD techniques in DevOps and IaC approaches
• Experience with CI/CD tools like GitLab GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Harness or Jenkins
• Experience with Git and GitOps in a Continuous Delivery pipeline
• Experience with containerized workloads in a Continuous Delivery pipeline
• Programming/Scripting in an IaC Framework
• Experienced in REST API development and use in IaC
• Experienced in JSON/YAML
• Experience with TestDriven Development (TDD) and understand how it can be used to improve quality.
• Capable to code in languages such as Python PowerShell or Bash scripting able to adopt and learn new coding skills and languages quickly
• Experience in writing complex ansible code using custom modules using Python 3 and exposure in Ansible Automation Platform or AWX
• Strong knowledge of Linux

Remote Work :

No