Senior IaC Engineer

Pay Rate is $100/hr. W2 plus travel expenses in case a candidate needs to travel.

Principle Responsibilities and Role

The Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Advisory Consultant ( "Senior IaC Engineer), is responsible for technical leadership, design, planning, leading a team or architecting a solution for IaC creating automated pipelines to provision and configure infrastructure using software development practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, & version control.

This person has both strong analytical and design skills as well as a good understanding of the infrastructure that is to be provisioned. They engage a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for product and tool specific requirements to achieve customer outcomes. This role is responsible for building the IaC solution for a customer and also to enable them successfully to carry forward the automation implemented as part of Day 1 and Day 2 operations.

DevOps and IaC Foundation

An experienced practitioner of Agile methodology for software engineering and development

Has an architecturally sound understanding and experience in the end-to-end workflow, including service portals, and solutioning of infrastructure provisioning on premises and on cloud platforms.

Knows the tooling and software development concepts necessary for infrastructure automation to deliver quality outcomes

Has Consulting experience or equivalent consultative experience to assist our customers in advancing their knowledge and practices. This will require leadership in hands on, teach to fish engagements, presentations to client development staff and mentoring.

Soft Skills

Collaborate on large team assignments with other automation consultants and assist them with skills and knowledge needed for their assignments

Ability to contribute to technical workshops that engage the customer, gather requirements, design and drive solutions

Possesses effective communication skills to socialize ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner to the customer, stakeholders, account and automation team members.

Customer-focused, able to manage relationships, gain trust, and build consensus between stakeholders

Elicits technical and functional requirements from business and IT stakeholders based on the infrastructure specific solutioning, technical and process dependencies, security and compliance.

Validates requirements, prototyping and functionality design and oversees creation and quality of proposals that address current and evolving client requirements

Provides issue resolution as point of contact for technical questions; leads code reviews, testing processes, and certification of software; facilitates client and internal meetings; presents architecture and design solutions

Can define work outputs and functional outcomes for a SOW and engagement team

Provides their expertise and support to other team members across project and presales activities in addition to current engagements

Awareness of stakeholders and ability to influence outcomes

Ability to enable others through coaching and pairing

Technical Minimum Required Skills & Experience

General

Significant hands-on experience, automating the provisioning and configuration of large-scale infrastructure

Ability to work well within and across teams to deliver high-quality solutions

Provisioning and Configuration Tools

Experience automating Compute/Storage/Network with Ansible (Core and AWX/AAP) and Terraform Enterprise

Experience with writing declarative code for pipelines and understand why it is beneficial in an IaC approach

Can articulate and is experienced in the workflow to provision and decommission a VM

CI/CD Concepts and Tools

Experience using CI/CD techniques in DevOps and IaC approaches

Experience with CI/CD tools like GitLab, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Harness or Jenkins

Experience with Git and GitOps in a Continuous Delivery pipeline

Experience with containerized workloads in a Continuous Delivery pipeline

Programming/Scripting in an IaC Framework

Experienced in REST API development and use in IaC

Experienced in JSON/YAML

Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and understand how it can be used to improve quality.

Capable to code in languages such as Python, PowerShell or Bash scripting able to adopt and learn new coding skills and languages quickly

Experience in writing complex ansible code using custom modules using Python 3 and exposure in Ansible Automation Platform or AWX

Strong knowledge of Linux