Data CenterCloud & Automation SME

Role: Data Center/Cloud & Automation SME

Location: Culver City CA
Duration: 6 months

Experience Required: 10 & Above


Skills: Digital : Amazon Web Service(AWS) Cloud Computing
Primary Skills : Linux AWS Terraform & Ansible Automation
Secondary Skills : Windows Citrix Nutanix and VMware


Detailed Responsibility**
Manage and support Linux servers including installation patching user management performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
Design provision and maintain AWS infrastructure (EC2 Certificate Manager Security Groups VPC IAM S3 Load Balancers) ensuring security availability and cost efficiency.
Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to build update and manage AWS resources in a consistent and reusable manner.
Automate system configuration deployments and patching using Ansible playbooks and roles.
Code version control through Github.
Monitor systems and cloud resources respond to incidents and perform root cause analysis.
Follow security best practices access controls and compliance requirements across OS and cloud platforms.
Collaborate with application network and security teams to support deployments and changes.
Maintain documentation SOPs and continuously improve automation and operational efficiency.

Required Technical Skill Set** Linux Administration: Strong hands on experience with RHEL / Amazon Linux / Ubuntu including user management patching troubleshooting shell scripting and performance monitoring.
AWS Cloud: Practical knowledge of core AWS services such as EC2 VPC Subnets Certificate ManagerIAM S3 Load Balancers Auto Scaling and CloudWatch with security and cost optimization awareness.
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform): Experience in writing and managing Terraform modules variables and state files to provision and maintain AWS infrastructure.
Configuration Management (Ansible): Ability to create and manage Ansible playbooks and roles for OS configuration automation and deployment tasks.
Version Control: Working knowledge of Git for code versioning and collaboration.
Understanding of networking fundamentals
Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in Bash scripting and automation of repetitive operational tasks.
Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Experience in system and cloud monitoring incident handling and root cause analysis.
Security & Compliance: Understanding of access control encryption patch management and secure configuration practices.

Good-to-Have-

Windows Adminitration Citrix - storefront Delivery controllers netscaler PAM XenApp Administration.
Experience in Nutanix and VMware
CI/CD Tools: Exposure to Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI or similar pipelines.
Containers & Orchestration: Basic knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
Advanced AWS Services: Familiarity with RDS Lambda DynamoDB Route53 or EKS.
Monitoring & Logging Tools: Experience with tools like Prometheus Grafana ELK stack or CloudTrail.
Ansible AWX / Tower: Experience with Ansible Tower or AWX for centralized automation.
Terraform Advanced Usage: Exposure to multi account setups workspaces and complex module design.
Security Practices: Knowledge of vulnerability scanning security audits and compliance requirements.
ITIL / ITSM Awareness: Experience working with incident problem and change management processes.
Scripting Languages: Basic knowledge of Python for automation tasks.
Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Ability to create SOPs runbooks and technical documentation.

Responsibility of Automation & Configuration Management Engineer / Expectations from the Role
1 Manage and support Linux servers including installation patching monitoring and troubleshooting.
2 Provision configure and maintain AWS infrastructure ensuring availability security and scalability.
3 Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform for consistent cloud deployments.
4 Automate system configuration deployments and operational tasks using Ansible.
5 Monitor systems and cloud resources; handle incidents changes and service requests.
6 Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive actions
7 Enforce security best practices across OS and cloud environments.
8 Collaborate with cross functional teams to support application deployments and platform stability.
9 Maintain documentation SOPs and runbooks
10 Manage code/version control through GitHub
Continuously improve automation reliability and operational efficiency.