Senior Specialist – Cloud Engineering

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Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer

10 years of hands-on experience

Zero-Touch Build, Upgrade, and Certification framework

bare-metal provisioning, configuration management, and full-stack automation

GitOps principles

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, lead, and implement a fully automated zero-touch deployment pipeline for GPU cloud infrastructure, spanning hardware, OS, and Kubernetes platform layers.
• Build robust GitOps-based workflows to manage the full infrastructure lifecycle — from provisioning to continuous compliance.
• Design and maintain automation for:
• Bare-metal control: power cycling, provisioning, remote installs
• Firmware & 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 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 (IaC), compliance, and operational resilience.
• Champion automation-driven operational models, reducing manual intervention to near zero.
  

Bonus:

Terraform

Chef

Required Skills & Experience

• 10 years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, automation, and systems design, with a strong track record of delivering scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Primary key skills: Ansible, Python, ipmitool, firmware scripting, Linux shell scripting.
• Deep expertise in:
• Ansible for automation & configuration management
• Python for scripting, integration, and automation logic
• ipmitool & related tools for low-level hardware management (IPMI, Redfish)
• Proven experience with bare-metal automation in data center environments, including:
• Power control & PXE booting
• BIOS/NIC/RAID firmware upgrades
• Hardware & platform inventory systems
• Strong foundation in Linux systems, networking, and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Fluency with GitOps workflows and tools.
• Experience with CI/CD systems and Git-based pipelines for infrastructure.
• Familiarity with infrastructure monitoring, logging, and drift detection.
• Strong cross-team collaboration & communication skills, especially across hardware, platform, and SRE teams.
  

Bonus

• Prior leadership or mentorship experience
• Contribution to or maintenance of open-source infrastructure projects
• Exposure to GPU-based compute stacks & high-performance workloads
  

Skills

Mandatory Skills:

• Ansible
• Terraform
• Puppet
• Chef
• Scripting – Shell / PowerShell / Python