IaC_Automation_Sr Consultant

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'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 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'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