Role & responsibilities Ansible Automation Developer Job Description Mission : Innovate is looking or some highly motivated pattern developers to help drive the realization of the visions of cognitive cloud technologies. Job Description: Our team is seeking a strong Automation Engineer, who has experience in leading, designing/architecting as well as ground level execution (development and delivery) in various cloud solutions and services contexts (with emphasis on orchestration, automation and integration). Job Responsibilities : • Automation of business processes and software deployment/configuration through a variety of frameworks, development languages and tools (primarily ruby, python, java script, bash, etc., but Chef their associated DSLs/programming languages can be considered). • Contribute and provide input and/or direction for the overall development processes and development operations (DevOps), throughout system/software development lifecycle. • Design, Development and implementation of the automation and services developed in various cloud platforms (both public and private) and service models Technical Skills: Successful candidates will have a subset of the following skills. (at least 80% coverage required) • Operating Systems: Experienced Linux system engineer. Can perform most tasks with no assistance. At least 3 years hands-on experience with Red Hat Linux family • Virtualization and Cloud Computing: Senior level virtualization skills. Can perform most virtualization tasks with minimum assistance. • At least 12 months experience building container-based solutions using one or more of Openshift, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm. • At least 6 months hands-on experience with Linux KVM (libvirt, libguestfs, virsh, qemu, qemu-img, virtio) or equivalent experience using Xen, Oracle VM. • Understanding of cloud service models - IaaS/PaaS/Saas - considered a plus. Ansible - Technical Experience • Install Ansible/ Red Hat Ansible Engine on control nodes. • Create and update inventories of managed hosts and manage connections to them. • Automate administration tasks with Ansible playbooks and adhoc commands. • Write effective Ansible playbooks at scale • Protect sensitive data used by Ansible with Ansible Vault Reuse code and simplify playbook development with Ansible roles • Configure Ansible managed nodes • Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes • Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes • Create Ansible plays and playbooks • Know how to work with commonly used Ansible modules • Use variables to retrieve the results of running commands Deep Understanding core components of Ansible: • Inventories • Modules • Variables • Facts • Plays • Playbooks • Configuration files • Automation Development - Any kind of automation development in SDLC to bring effectiveness. Preferably using Ruby, Python, bash, etc. which can return JSON for Ansible. • Working knowledge of software repositories like github or bitbucket • Cloud - Knowledge on OpenStack, VMWare, AWS, Azure, SoftLayer, Google Cloud etc., will be further helpful. • Knowledge and experience with various cloud service and deployment models (ie: IaaS, PaaS, XaaS, on-premise, off-premise, etc.) • Sysadmin background (with both implementation and support experience in terms of infrastructure, servers, OSes, middleware and databases) • Understanding of several middleware such as Oracle, SAP, DB2, MySql, Apache, IIS, etc., • Solid background with operating systems deployment and administration (various Linux/Unix flavours-RHEL/SLES, AIX as well as Windows Servers) Nice to Have: • Experience with Chef. • Experience with VMware technologies. • Experience in Software Development Projects using agile development methodologies ( SCRUM ). • Experience with the Azure, AWS and Google public clouds. Soft Skills (100% coverage required) • Strong spoken and written communication skills • Demonstrated ability to work in large teams with geography spread • Ability to lead small teams technically • Client facing experience and skills Education : Relevant Graduate/undergraduate degree from a leading university. Preferred candidate profile Perks and benefits
