Data Center Cloud & Automation SME Infrstructure

Data Center / Cloud & Automation SME - AWS / Linux / Terraform / Ansible

Experience: 10 Years
Location: Culver City CA
Work Mode: 100% Onsite from Day 1
Role Level: Systems Engineer - L3 Infrastructure Support

We are seeking an experienced Data Center / Cloud & Automation SME to provide L3 infrastructure support across Linux systems AWS cloud infrastructure and automation platforms.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in Linux Administration AWS Terraform Ansible and infrastructure automation with additional experience in Windows Citrix VMware and Nutanix environments.

• Linux Administration
• AWS Cloud
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Infrastructure Automation
• Bash/Shell Scripting
• Git/GitHub

• Windows Administration
• Citrix Administration
• VMware
• Nutanix

• Provide L3 infrastructure support for Linux servers and enterprise infrastructure.
• Install configure patch monitor and troubleshoot RHEL Amazon Linux and Ubuntu servers.
• Manage Linux users permissions services processes storage and system performance.
• Provision configure and maintain AWS infrastructure.
• Manage AWS services including EC2 VPC Subnets IAM S3 Certificate Manager Load Balancers Auto Scaling and CloudWatch.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Create and maintain reusable Terraform modules variables configurations and state files.
• Automate OS configuration application deployment patching and operational tasks using Ansible.
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles.
• Manage infrastructure code using Git/GitHub.
• Monitor servers and cloud infrastructure and respond to incidents.
• Perform troubleshooting root cause analysis (RCA) and preventive actions.
• Implement security access-control encryption patching and compliance best practices.
• Collaborate with application network security and other infrastructure teams.
• Support application deployments infrastructure changes and production releases.
• Maintain SOPs runbooks architecture documentation and operational procedures.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation reliability scalability and operational efficiency.

• Strong hands-on experience with RHEL Amazon Linux and/or Ubuntu.
• Server installation configuration patching and upgrades.
• User and permission management.
• System troubleshooting and performance monitoring.
• Bash/shell scripting.

Hands-on experience with:

• EC2
• VPC
• Subnets
• IAM
• S3
• Certificate Manager
• Load Balancers
• Auto Scaling
• CloudWatch

Understanding of AWS security availability scalability and cost optimization.

• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining Terraform configurations.
• Experience creating Terraform modules and variables.
• Understanding of Terraform state management.
• Experience provisioning and maintaining AWS infrastructure through IaC.
• Ability to develop reusable and standardized infrastructure components.

• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible.
• Ability to develop and maintain playbooks and roles.
• Experience automating OS configuration patching deployment and operational tasks.
• Ansible Tower/AWX experience is a plus.

• Working knowledge of Git/GitHub.
• Experience managing infrastructure code and collaborating through source control.

• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Understanding of VPCs subnets routing security groups load balancing DNS and connectivity.

• Experience with infrastructure and cloud monitoring.
• Incident management and production troubleshooting.
• Root cause analysis and preventive action implementation.

• Understanding of:
  • Access control
  • IAM
  • Encryption
  • Patch management
  • Secure configuration
  • Vulnerability management
  • Compliance requirements

• Windows Server Administration
• Citrix:
  • StoreFront
  • Delivery Controllers
  • NetScaler
  • PAM
  • XenApp
• VMware
• Nutanix
• Jenkins / GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
• Docker / Kubernetes
• AWS RDS Lambda DynamoDB Route 53 EKS
• Prometheus / Grafana / ELK / CloudTrail
• Ansible Tower / AWX
• Advanced Terraform
• Multi-account AWS environments
• Terraform workspaces and complex module design
• Python scripting
• ITIL / ITSM
• ServiceNow
• Technical documentation and knowledge sharing

• 10 years of overall infrastructure / systems engineering experience.
• Strong experience in L3 infrastructure support.
• Strong hands-on experience with Linux Administration.
• Strong AWS infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on Terraform and Ansible automation experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise production environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with cross-functional teams.