Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Job :

Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer (Zero-Touch GPU Cloud Build & Upgrade)

Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, lead, and implement

  a fully automated, zero-touch deployment pipeline for GPU cloud infrastructure spanning hardware OS Kubernetes platform layers.
• Build robust GitOps-based workflows to manage end-to-end infrastructure lifecyclefrom provisioning to continuous compliance.
• Design and maintain automation for:

• Bare-metal control

  : Power cycling, provisioning, remote installs

• Firmware and configuration flashing

  : BIOS, NIC, RAID, etc.

• Hardware inventory management

• Configuration drift detection and remediation

• Develop and extend internal automation frameworks using

  Ansible, Python

  , and related infrastructure tooling.
• Serve as a

  technical authority and mentor

  , guiding junior engineers and collaborating cross-functionally with hardware, SRE, and platform engineering teams.
• Lead architectural and design reviews for infrastructure automation systems.
• Define and implement best practices for

  infrastructure as code

  , compliance, and operational resilience.
• Champion automation-driven operational models and reduce manual intervention to near-zero.

• Bonus:

  Familiarity with

  Terraform, Chef, and Cloud Automation Platforms

  .

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of hands-on experience

  in infrastructure engineering, automation, and systems design, with a strong track record of delivering scalable and maintainable solutions.

• Primary key skills

  required are Ansible, Python, ipmitool, firmware scripting, Linux shell scripting
• Deep expertise in:

• Ansible

  for automation and configuration management

• Python

  for scripting, integration, and automation logic

• ipmitool

  and related tools for low-level hardware management (e.g., IPMI, Redfish)
• Proven experience with

  bare-metal automation

  in data center environments, including:
• Power control and PXE booting
• BIOS/NIC/RAID firmware upgrades
• Hardware and platform inventory systems
• Strong foundation in

  Linux systems

  , networking, and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Fluency with

  GitOps

  workflows and tools.
• Experience with CI/CD systems and managing Git-based pipelines for infrastructure.
• Familiarity with infrastructure monitoring, logging, and drift detection.
• Strong cross-team collaboration and communication skills, especially across hardware, platform, and SRE teams.
• Bonus:
• Prior leadership or mentorship roles
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source infrastructure projects
• Exposure to GPU-based compute stacks and high-performance workloads