Senior Automation Consultant

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

Required Skills : Terraform and Ansible Infrastructure as Code (IaC)