Principal, Infrastructure Automation (Ansible) - Pune

Overview

Principal Automation Engineer to lead design, development and implementation of enterprise automation across hybrid infrastructure, cloud platforms and application environments, acting as technical authority for automation engineering, Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code and orchestration.

What you'll do

• Define and lead the enterprise automation roadmap.
• Establish reusable automation standards, frameworks and engineering best practices.
• Develop automation supporting enterprise resiliency, cyber recovery, disaster recovery, backup and restore, and operational excellence.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, GitOps and policy-driven automation.
• Design, develop and maintain enterprise-grade Ansible Playbooks, Roles, Collections and Automation Controller workflows.
• Develop reusable automation modules and enterprise automation libraries.
• Build automation for server provisioning, operating system configuration, middleware and application deployment, database, storage and network automation, Kubernetes/OpenShift lifecycle management, public and private cloud provisioning, security configuration, disaster recovery orchestration, cyber recovery execution, patch management and compliance remediation.
• Develop automation integrating with GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Terraform, ServiceNow, VMware, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, HashiCorp Vault, Active Directory, LDAP, REST APIs and Python SDKs.
• Build complex multi-step workflows spanning infrastructure, cloud, applications, databases, networking and security.
• Design event-driven automation triggered by monitoring, observability or ITSM platforms.
• Develop self-service automation catalogs for engineering teams.
• Enable fully automated provisioning and recovery capabilities.
• Develop Python modules supporting Ansible automation, REST API integrations and custom Ansible plugins.
• Develop testing frameworks for automation quality, and implement automated validation and reporting.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines, implement automated testing and code quality gates, build secure software delivery pipelines and automate compliance validation.
• Develop automation supporting disaster recovery, Point-in-Time Recovery (PiTR), backup validation, cyber recovery, air-gapped recovery, Isolated Recovery Environments (IRE), clean room recovery, automated recovery testing, automated evidence collection, RTO/RPO reporting and infrastructure rebuild.
• Serve as enterprise subject matter expert for automation engineering.
• Mentor automation engineers and software developers, conduct architecture reviews, lead proof-of-concepts for emerging automation technologies and drive engineering standards across infrastructure teams.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of enterprise infrastructure engineering.
• 8+ years of Ansible automation development.
• 5+ years developing enterprise automation frameworks.
• Expert knowledge of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• Strong software development background.
• Experience building enterprise APIs.
• Experience with enterprise Linux administration.
• Deep understanding of Windows automation.
• Experience automating hybrid cloud environments.
• Expert in Ansible Automation Platform, Ansible Controller / Tower, Playbooks, Roles, Collections, Jinja2, YAML, Python, Git, REST APIs and Linux.
• Advanced in Terraform, PowerShell, Bash, Azure, AWS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, VMware, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins and ServiceNow.

Nice to have

• Red Hat Satellite, HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk, Kafka, MQ, Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience in financial services or GSIB environments.
• Enterprise resiliency engineering, disaster recovery automation and cyber recovery automation.
• Immutable backup technologies, air-gap recovery solutions and infrastructure rebuild automation.
• Regulated environments, large-scale hybrid cloud transformations and Infrastructure as Code and GitOps operating models.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.