Infrastructure Automation Specialist – Python, Ansible, F5 LTM/GTM & Network APIs

Overview

Synechron is seeking an Infrastructure Automation Engineer to implement and maintain automation solutions for infrastructure certification, plant management, and infrastructure-on-demand services. The role works with Python, Ansible, infrastructure APIs, F5 load balancers, networking protocols, Linux-based environments, and lab-based testing.

What you'll do

• Implement automation for certification and plant management using Python and Ansible.
• Automate infrastructure installation, configuration, provisioning, management, and validation tasks.
• Extend and integrate APIs to provide infrastructure-on-demand capabilities.
• Design, develop, test, document, and maintain automation workflows and reusable components.
• Perform and automate lab-based testing for new hardware and software certification.
• Configure, manage, integrate, and troubleshoot F5 LTM and GTM load balancers.
• Use TMSH, iControl, and iRules for F5 configuration, automation, integration, and operational requirements.
• Apply TCP/IP, BGP, HTTP, SSL, and other networking concepts when designing and troubleshooting solutions.
• Work with distributed web applications and their infrastructure for availability, performance, scalability, and connectivity.
• Use Linux command-line tools for configuration, automation, testing, monitoring, and issue resolution.
• Communicate with internal clients and stakeholders to identify requirements and translate them into secure, scalable, supportable, and maintainable infrastructure solutions.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, network, software, testing, security, and operations teams.
• Investigate failures, resolve defects, improve automation reliability, and document technical findings.
• Ensure certification tests are repeatable, traceable, and aligned with defined requirements.
• Evaluate technologies and recommend improvements to automation, testing, deployment, and service delivery.
• Develop and maintain Python and Ansible automation for certification, plant management, installation, configuration, provisioning, and infrastructure-on-demand services.
• Review certification results, investigate failures, and document technical findings and delivery status.
• Clarify requirements, recommend solution designs, prioritize work, and make technical decisions within agreed architecture and governance boundaries.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure automation, network automation, systems engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or a related field.
• Experience automating infrastructure installation, configuration, certification, or management using Ansible, Python, shell, or another scripting/programming language.
• Expertise with F5 LTM and GTM load-balancer configuration and APIs, including TMSH, iControl, and iRules.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, BGP, HTTP, SSL, and networking concepts across relevant layers.
• Experience with distributed web applications and their underlying infrastructure.
• Practical experience working with Linux-based command-line environments.
• Experience extending and integrating APIs for infrastructure-on-demand services.
• Experience performing or automating lab-based testing for new hardware and software certification.
• Hands-on Python experience automating infrastructure installation, configuration, management, certification, and testing.
• Practical Ansible experience developing and maintaining playbooks, roles, automation workflows, and infrastructure configuration processes.
• Experience using shell or other scripting/programming languages to automate repetitive infrastructure tasks.
• Experience working with the Python, Ansible, Linux, F5, networking, API, automation, and testing tool versions used by the assigned project, including assessing compatibility and upgrade considerations.
• Ability to write maintainable, reusable, testable, and well-documented automation code.
• Ability to troubleshoot scripts, automation workflows, API interactions, and infrastructure-related failures.
• Understanding of configuration data, infrastructure inventory, service metadata, test results, and certification records.
• Ability to manage, validate, and document data used by automation workflows and infrastructure APIs.
• Experience with structured configuration files and data exchanged through APIs.
• Understanding of infrastructure-on-demand concepts and automated provisioning.
• Ability to apply infrastructure automation principles in distributed or cloud-enabled environments.
• Understanding of scalability, availability, networking, configuration, and operational requirements for infrastructure services.
• Experience with Ansible playbooks, roles, modules, variables, templates, inventories, and automation workflows.
• Ability to build reusable automation components for infrastructure management and certification.
• Understanding of software version control, deployment, build tools, and software development lifecycle practices.
• Ability to document automation processes, configuration requirements, test results, dependencies, and operational procedures.
• Experience troubleshooting automation failures, infrastructure issues, networking problems, and API errors.
• Ability to work with Linux-based command-line tools and operational processes.
• Strong understanding of SSL and its role in secure network communication.
• Awareness of authentication, authorization, access control, secure API integration, and protection of infrastructure credentials.
• Ability to apply secure configuration and operational practices when automating infrastructure.
• Understanding of security considerations for distributed web applications, load balancers, APIs, and Linux environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Networking, or a related field; equivalent relevant professional experience may be considered.
• Demonstrated experience delivering infrastructure automation, network automation, infrastructure certification, API integration, or lab-based testing solutions.
• Commitment to continuous professional development through technical training, hands-on learning, certification maintenance, knowledge sharing, and awareness of evolving infrastructure technologies.
• Ability to diagnose automation failures, network issues, API errors, configuration defects, and certification risks.
• Ability to communicate requirements, solution designs, technical risks, testing results, dependencies, and delivery updates to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to adapt to new hardware, software, infrastructure platforms, networking technologies, automation tools, APIs, and evolving business requirements.
• Ability to manage multiple automation, certification, testing, support, and stakeholder priorities while maintaining technical accuracy, documentation quality, and agreed delivery timelines.

Nice to have

• Experience with additional programming or scripting languages.
• Hands-on experience deploying and configuring network infrastructure, including Cisco, Arista, or comparable platforms.
• Experience with the Infoblox suite of DNS and DHCP products.
• Knowledge of virtualized and containerized infrastructure.
• Experience with software version control, deployment, build tools, and software development lifecycle practices.
• Experience with infrastructure testing, continuous integration, continuous delivery, or automated release tools.
• Recognized industry certifications from F5, Cisco, or other relevant technology vendors.
• Equivalent tools and platforms may be considered where they provide comparable capabilities.
• Familiarity with structured data formats and API data exchange, including JSON or YAML.
• Experience developing reusable libraries, modules, or automation frameworks.
• Experience integrating automation with relational or non-relational databases.
• Familiarity with configuration databases, infrastructure inventories, DNS data, DHCP data, or asset-management systems.
• Experience maintaining data consistency, traceability, and auditability across infrastructure processes.
• Knowledge of virtualized and containerized infrastructure.
• Experience automating cloud infrastructure or integrating infrastructure APIs with cloud services.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, or cloud-based testing environments.
• Awareness of resource-efficient infrastructure design and cloud cost considerations.
• Familiarity with Python libraries for API integration, networking, testing, logging, or automation.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks and configuration-management tools.
• Exposure to libraries or platforms supporting virtualized, containerized, or cloud-based infrastructure.
• Experience with Git or equivalent version-control systems.
• Familiarity with continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, build pipelines, and release-management tools.
• Experience with test automation frameworks, infrastructure validation, performance testing, or service monitoring.
• Familiarity with Agile or iterative delivery practices.
• Experience with certificate management, encryption, secrets management, network security controls, or secure automation practices.
• Familiarity with security testing, vulnerability remediation, auditability, and infrastructure compliance require