Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer

About Client :

Our client is a global digital solutions and technology consulting company headquartered in Mumbai, India.

The company generates annual revenue of over $4.29 billion (?35,517 crore), reflecting a 4.4% year-over-year growth in USD terms.

It has a workforce of around 86,000 professionals operating in more than 40 countries and serves a global client base of over 700 organizations.

Our client operates across several major industry sectors, including Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI), Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT), Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Manufacturing & Consumer.

In the past year, the company achieved a net profit of $553.4 million (?4,584.6 crore), marking a 1.4% increase from the previous year.

It also recorded a strong order inflow of $5.6 billion, up 15.7% year-over-year, highlighting growing demand across its service lines.

Key focus areas include Digital Transformation, Enterprise AI, Data & Analytics, and Product Engineeringreflecting its strategic commitment to driving innovation and value for clients across industries.

Job Description :

Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer (Zero-Touch GPU Cloud Stack Linux Image Lifecycle).

We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer with 10+ years of experience to lead the design and implementation of a Zero-Touch Build, Upgrade, and Certification pipeline for our on-prem GPU cloud infrastructure.

This role focuses on automating the full stackfrom hardware provisioning through OS and Kubernetes deploymentleveraging 100% GitOps workflows.

The candidate will bring deep expertise in Linux systems automation, image management, and compliance hardening, with a strong foundation in infrastructure engineering.

Key Responsibilities:

- Architect and implement a fully automated, GitOps-based pipeline for building, upgrading, and certifying the Linux operating system layer in the GPU cloud stack (hardware OS - Kubernetes platform).

- Design and automate Linux image builds using Packer, Kickstart, and Ansible.

- Integrate CIS/STIG compliance hardening and OpenSCAP scanning directly into the image lifecycle and validation workflows.

- Own and manage kernel module/driver automation, ensuring version compatibility and hardware enablement for GPU nodes.

- Collaborate with platform, SRE, and security teams to standardize image build and deployment practices across the stack.

- Maintain GitOps-compliant infrastructure-as-code repositories, ensuring traceability and reproducibility of all automation logic.

- Build self-service capabilities and frameworks for zero-touch provisioning, image certification, and drift detection.

- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to strategic automation roadmap initiatives.

Required Skills & Experience:

- 10+ years of hands-on experience in Linux infrastructure engineering, system automation, and OS lifecycle management.

- Primary key skills required are Ansible, Python, Packer, Kickstart, OpenSCAP.

Deep expertise with :

- Packer for automated image builds.

- Kickstart for unattended OS provisioning.

- OpenSCAP for security compliance and policy enforcement.

- Ansible for configuration management and post-build customization.

- Strong understanding of CIS/STIG hardening standards and their application in automated pipelines.

- Experience with kernel and driver management, particularly in hardware-accelerated (GPU) environments.

- Proven ability to implement GitOps workflows for infrastructure automation (e.g., Git-backed pipelines for image release and validation).

- Solid knowledge of Linux internals, bootloaders, and provisioning mechanisms in bare-metal environments.

- Exposure to Kubernetes, particularly in the context of OS-level customization and compliance.

- Strong collaboration skills across teams including security, SRE, platform, and hardware engineering.

Bonus :

- Familiarity with image signing, SBOM generation, or secure boot workflows.

- Experience working in regulated or compliance-heavy environments (e.g., FedRAMP, PCI-DSS).

- Contributions to infrastructure automation frameworks or open-source tools.