Automation Specialist

Location- Pune

Experience- 4+ Year

Role- Automation Engineer – DevOps & Infrastructure Automation (Lateral Hire – 4–7 Years Relevant Experience)

Overview: The Automation Engineer will be responsible for modernizing and automating enterprise infrastructure platforms with a strong focus on Bare-Metal Servers and Enterprise Storage systems. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, problem-solving capability, innovative thinking, and hands-on development expertise in automation and DevOps tooling.

Primary Responsibilities:

· Design, develop, and enhance infrastructure automation using Ansible and Python

· Integrate infrastructure platforms with RESTful APIs

· Automate provisioning and lifecycle operations for HPE ProLiant Bare-Metal Servers and HPE Alletra MP Storage

· Implement and maintain automation using Terraform for virtualization and datacenter services

· Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD

· Troubleshoot and resolve complex automation issues

· Work cross-functionally with Platform, Security, and Ops teams to identify automation opportunities

· Promote continuous improvement and innovation in automation methodologies

· Create and maintain technical documentation for automation standards and processes

Required Skills:

· Strong experience with Linux-based systems and administration (shell, services, system config)

· Expert-level hands-on experience with Ansible development (roles, modules, collections, dynamic inventory, Jinja2 templating)

· Strong programming skills using Python for automation frameworks

· Good working knowledge of Terraform (modules, providers, resource lifecycle)

· Strong understanding and practical use of RESTful APIs for infrastructure automation

· Good knowledge of Enterprise Bare-Metal servers, preferably HPE ProLiant

· Good knowledge of Enterprise Storage platforms, preferably HPE Alletra MP

· Experience with one virtualization stack:

o VMware vSphere / OpenStack / KVM / Nutanix AHV

· Strong analytical thinking, debugging ability, and innovation mindset

· Solid understanding of Networking, Security, and Datacenter infrastructures

Desired Skills:

· Familiarity with GitOps and version-control workflows

· Exposure to containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

· Understanding of monitoring/logging tech (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK)

· Basic experience with databases and SQL

· Exposure to automation of backup, DR, and mission-critical application stacks

· Familiarity with around Internal Developer Portal