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Pay Rate is $100/hr. W2 plus travel expenses in case a candidate needs to travel.
Principle Responsibilities and Role
The Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Advisory Consultant ( "Senior IaC Engineer), is responsible for technical leadership, design, planning, leading a team or architecting a solution for IaC creating automated pipelines to provision and configure infrastructure using software development practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, & version control.
This person has both strong analytical and design skills as well as a good understanding of the infrastructure that is to be provisioned. They engage a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for product and tool specific requirements to achieve customer outcomes. This role is responsible for building the IaC solution for a customer and also to enable them successfully to carry forward the automation implemented as part of Day 1 and Day 2 operations.
DevOps and IaC Foundation
An experienced practitioner of Agile methodology for software engineering and development
Has an architecturally sound understanding and experience in the end-to-end workflow, including service portals, and solutioning of infrastructure provisioning on premises and on cloud platforms.
Knows the tooling and software development concepts necessary for infrastructure automation to deliver quality outcomes
Has Consulting experience or equivalent consultative experience to assist our customers in advancing their knowledge and practices. This will require leadership in hands on, teach to fish engagements, presentations to client development staff and mentoring.
Soft Skills
Collaborate on large team assignments with other automation consultants and assist them with skills and knowledge needed for their assignments
Ability to contribute to technical workshops that engage the customer, gather requirements, design and drive solutions
Possesses effective communication skills to socialize ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner to the customer, stakeholders, account and automation team members.
Customer-focused, able to manage relationships, gain trust, and build consensus between stakeholders
Elicits technical and functional requirements from business and IT stakeholders based on the infrastructure specific solutioning, technical and process dependencies, security and compliance.
Validates requirements, prototyping and functionality design and oversees creation and quality of proposals that address current and evolving client requirements
Provides issue resolution as point of contact for technical questions; leads code reviews, testing processes, and certification of software; facilitates client and internal meetings; presents architecture and design solutions
Can define work outputs and functional outcomes for a SOW and engagement team
Provides their expertise and support to other team members across project and presales activities in addition to current engagements
Awareness of stakeholders and ability to influence outcomes
Ability to enable others through coaching and pairing
Technical Minimum Required Skills & Experience
General
Significant hands-on experience, automating the provisioning and configuration of large-scale infrastructure
Ability to work well within and across teams to deliver high-quality solutions
Provisioning and Configuration Tools
Experience automating Compute/Storage/Network with Ansible (Core and AWX/AAP) and Terraform Enterprise
Experience with writing declarative code for pipelines and understand why it is beneficial in an IaC approach
Can articulate and is experienced in the workflow to provision and decommission a VM
CI/CD Concepts and Tools
Experience using CI/CD techniques in DevOps and IaC approaches
Experience with CI/CD tools like GitLab, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Harness or Jenkins
Experience with Git and GitOps in a Continuous Delivery pipeline
Experience with containerized workloads in a Continuous Delivery pipeline
Programming/Scripting in an IaC Framework
Experienced in REST API development and use in IaC
Experienced in JSON/YAML
Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and understand how it can be used to improve quality.
Capable to code in languages such as Python, PowerShell or Bash scripting able to adopt and learn new coding skills and languages quickly
Experience in writing complex ansible code using custom modules using Python 3 and exposure in Ansible Automation Platform or AWX
Strong knowledge of Linux