Infrastructure Engineer (Expert)

Essential Skills

• Strong proficiency in Python for automation, scripting, and tooling development.
• Advanced Bash and Linux shell skills, with comfort operating and troubleshooting in Linux environments.
• Experience designing, building, and operating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Deep knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with configuration management and orchestration tools such as Ansible.
• Expertise in API integration and automation, including RESTful APIs, webhooks, and message-based integrations.
• Experience implementing automated testing, including API testing and automated regression testing.
• Proven ability to design idempotent automation, retries, compensation patterns, and robust error handling.
• Experience with workflow and orchestration engines (e.g., Temporal, Camunda, AWS Step Functions) and event-driven orchestration.
• Strong debugging, monitoring, and operational skills to run and maintain automation in production, instrumenting automation with metrics, structured logs, and traces while defining SLOs.

Advantageous Skills

• Familiarity with SOAR-style runbooks and automated remediation frameworks.
• Knowledge of AWS platform services and cloud-native automation patterns (Lambda, Step Functions, S3, API Gateway).
• Experience with observability tooling and metrics for automation, such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Familiarity with message brokers and pub/sub systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS).
• Experience with secure secret management and certificate management in automation, such as AWS Secrets Manager and HashiCorp Vault.
• Background in security automation and Zero Trust integrations.
• Experience designing for high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance in orchestration systems.
• Familiarity with container platforms and deployment automation including Docker, Kubernetes, and EKS.
• Experience with GitOps workflows and policy-as-code approaches (ArgoCD, Flux, OPA).
• Prior work building reusable automation libraries and developer-friendly APIs.

Role & Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate run-time automation and orchestration that integrates Zero Trust interfaces, APIs, and multiple data sources.
• Automate repetitive, testable, and operational activities across workflows, infrastructure, deployments, and runbooks.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and AWS CodePipeline to deliver automation artifacts reliably.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and configuration management (Ansible) to provision and manage AWS environments.
• Develop and maintain Python and Bash automation tooling, scripts, and reusable libraries.
• Design and operate workflow orchestration solutions (Temporal, Camunda, AWS Step Functions) for event-driven and long-running processes.
• Create and maintain SOAR-style runbooks and automated remediation playbooks to reduce manual incident response.
• Implement robust testing strategies, including API testing and automated regression testing, for all automation outputs.
• Ensure idempotency, retry, compensation, and error handling patterns are applied across orchestrations and integrations.
• Integrate with APIs, webhooks, and message-based systems (SNS/SQS, EventBridge, Kafka) to enable seamless end-to-end automated flows.
• Define, document, and meet operational SLAs (availability, latency, MTTR) for automation services while maintaining accurate capacity plans.
• Own automation alerting and runbooks, and participate in incident response and on-call rotations to ensure rapid remediation.

Qualifications & Experience

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in Automation Engineering, or closely related roles such as Site Reliability Engineering or Platform Engineering, with demonstrable automation ownership and strong Linux experience.
• A proven track record of delivering production-grade automation encompassing Python/Bash scripting, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform/IaC, and orchestration engines.
• Preferred certifications include AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional), AWS Certified Developer – Associate, and AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate.
• Strong problem-solving and solution-oriented mindset, with a focus on process improvement, high attention to detail, natural curiosity, ownership, and drive.