Automation Engineer
Role And Responsibilities:-
Design, Development and implementation of the automation and services developed in various cloud platforms (both public and private) and service models.
Exploring and implementing new ways to automate systems.
Identifying quality issues and writing reports.
Eliminating defects and errors with product and software development.
Automate administration tasks with Ansible playbooks and ad-hoc commands.
Write effective Ansible playbooks at scale
Protect sensitive data used by Ansible with Ansible Vault Reuse code and simplify
playbook development with Ansible roles
Configure Ansible managed nodes
Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes
Automation of business processes and software deployment/configuration through a variety of frameworks, development languages and tools (primarily ruby, python, javascript, bash, etc., but Chef and their associated DSLs/programming languages can be considered).
Contribute and provide input and/or direction for the overall development processes and development operations (DevOps),throughout the system/software development lifecycle.
Experience with VMware technologies.
Can perform most tasks with no assistance.
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
Experience in Software Development Projects using agile development methodologies (SCRUM).
Experience with Azure, AWS and Google public clouds.
Operating Systems: Experienced Linux system engineer.
Hands-on experience with the Red Hat Linux family
Understanding of several middlewares such as Oracle, SAP, DB2, MySql, Apache, IIS, etc.,
Solid background with operating systems deployment and administration (various Linux/Unix flavours-RHEL/SLES, AIX as well as Windows Servers)
Virtualization and Cloud Computing: Senior-level virtualization skills.
Can perform most virtualization tasks with minimum assistance.
Experience building container-based solutions using one or more of Openshift, Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.
Hands-on experience with Linux KVM (libvirt, libguestfs, virsh, qemu, qemu-img, virtio) or equivalent experience using Xen, and Oracle VM.
Automation Development - Any kind of automation development in SDLC to bring effectiveness.
Preferably using Ruby, Python, bash, etc. which can return JSON for Ansible.
Working knowledge of software repositories like GitHub or bitbucket
Cloud - Knowledge of OpenStack, VMWare, AWS, Azure, SoftLayer, Google Cloud etc., will be further helpful.
Knowledge and experience with various cloud service and deployment models (ie: IaaS, PaaS, XaaS, on-premise, off-premise, etc.)
Sysadmin background (with both implementation and support experience in terms of infrastructure, servers, OSes, middleware and databases)
Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes
Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes
Create Ansible plays and playbooks
Know how to work with commonly used Ansible
Understanding cloud service models - IaaS/PaaS/Saas - is considered a plus.
Ansible - Technical Experience
Install Ansible/ Red Hat Ansible Engine on control nodes.
Create and update inventories of managed hosts and manage connections to them.
Automate administration tasks with Ansible playbooks and ad-hoc commands.
Write effective Ansible playbooks at scale
Protect sensitive data used by Ansible with Ansible Vault Reuse code and simplify playbook development with Ansible roles
Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes
Create Ansible plays and playbooks
Know how to work with commonly used Ansible modules
Use variables to retrieve the results of running commands
Configure Ansible managed nodes
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
Install Ansible/ Red Hat Ansible Engine on control nodes.
Create and update inventories of managed hosts and manage connections to them.
Designing and testing automation equipment and processes.
Programming new automated components.