Description :

The IaC & Automation Sr Consultant will be responsible for helping the organization with their infrastructure and platform automation needs.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 7-8 years of relevant experience, with a strong background in infra/platform development and hands-on experience with configuration management tools and RESTful APIs.

This role requires a candidate with strong analytical/problem-solving skills, and a deep understanding of Linux-based infrastructures and administration.

The consultant will be responsible for designing and implementing automation solutions to improve the efficiency, scalability, and security of the organization's infrastructure and platform.

Primary Responsibilities :

- Design and develop automation scripts using Ansible, Python, GoLang and Ruby

- Implement and manage configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Chef

- Work with RESTful APIs to automate infrastructure and platform tasksa

nsi- Manage and maintain Linux-based infrastructures

- Analyze and solve problems related to infrastructure and platform automation

- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members

- Continuously improve and optimize automation processes

- Collaborate with other teams such as Development, Operations and Security to identify opportunities for automation

- Document and maintain automation scripts and processes

Required Skills :

- Strong understanding of infrastructure and platform development principles and experience with programming languages such as Python, GoLang, Ruby and/or Java for developing automation scripts.

- Hands-on experience with at least one configuration management tool, such as Ansible, Terraform, or Chef. This includes proficiency in writing playbooks, cookbook, modules & creating and modifying data structures.

- Experience with creating, troubleshooting, and maintaining automation scripts, utilizing libraries and frameworks such as Python's Ansible custom module and libraries, Chef's knife and Terraform s provider plugins.

- Working experience with RESTful APIs and understanding of API integration with automation tools

- Strong experience with Linux-based infrastructures and administration, including proficiency in command-line interface and shell scripting.

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to debug and troubleshoot complex automation issues

- Strong understanding of Bare-Metal Server, Storage (SAN/NAS), Network, Security, Enterprise Business Applications, and related technologies

- Experience in leading teams, leading solutions during pursuit/solutioning process

- Experience in preparing end to end architecture diagram for the solution

Desired Skills :

- Experience with Bash and PowerShell scripting

- Experience with one virtualized platform (VMware/Red Hat/Microsoft)

- Experience with Containers/Kubernetes

- Experience with Cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or CircleCI

- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack

- Experience with Databases and SQL

Exclusions :

- DevOps engineers with public cloud work experience (AWS DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, Build and Release DevOps Engineer) and no prior programming expertise

- System Administrators

- Test Automation Engineers