IaC_Automation_Sr Consultant

Job Description

Job Description: IaC & Automation Consultant - Lateral Hire (Minimum Relevant Experience 7-8 Years)Location : Electronic City, Bangalore

Experience : 5+

Overview

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&aposs 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 tasks
- 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&aposs Ansible custom module and libraries, Chef&aposs 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

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