Required Automation Engineer - Vellore

Automation Engineer

Role And Responsibilities:-

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

Identify opportunities for automation within software processes.&

Run tests for databases, systems, networks, applications, hardware and software

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.

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

Design and execute QA tests using scripts that automatically test functionality.&

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.

Design, Development and implementation of the automation and services developed in various cloud platforms (both public and private) and service models.

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

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.

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.)

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)

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

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

Understanding cloud service models - IaaS/PaaS/Saas - is considered a plus.&