Lead DevOps Automation – Ansible

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Reporting to the Manager (Innovation & Automation, I&IT), we are looking for a well-rounded Lead DevOps/Automation Engineer to join our Innovation & Automation Team. In this role, you will focus on defining the automation through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) crafting, Patch and automation strategies, Network, Virtualization, and Storage Provisioning, Identify and automate mundane tasks, developing frameworks, setting up guidelines and processes to bring efficiency across the entire Innovation & Information Technology organization.

The Lead Infrastructure Automation / Lead DevOps Engineer works in a cross-functional product development team that includes Infrastructure Engineers, Developers, QAs, Designers and Product Managers. The primary purpose of the role is to lead and empower our Innovation & Automation Team to deliver and support infrastructure services through the supply of reusable automation, tooling, and education.

What will I be doing?

• Lead is a hands-on resource that leads a team working on cutting-edge automation technologies such as Ansible, Tower, Terraform, Chef.
• Create and implement standards for coding, reusable code, architecture, etc. and guide the team to follow the same.
• The lead will analyze the automation requirements, code, implement and enhance Windows, Linux Server patching, VM Provisioning, Environment Spins, Network, Disk Capacity, OS Hardening, Common Requests, integration with QA automation frameworks. Integrate these into sophisticated continuous deployment pipelines etc. Develop tooling to automate repeated tasks.
• Built out a modern, scalable IaC architecture through best practices and constantly look for ways to help improve and save engineers' time and system reliability.
• Infrastructure designing, integrating and deploying multi-hypervisor based cloud and Kubernetes based container platforms. The focus will be on Ansible, Terraform, containers orchestration, and cloud technologies
• Define, develop, and maintain the infrastructure, tools and automation for various Infrastructure components such as capacity management, server patching, and VM deployment automation.
• Lead IT automation team to complete project planning and budgeting; define deliverable structure and content; facilitate buy-in of proposed solutions from all levels at the client
• Oversee all aspects of the development and delivery of automation applications including establishing metrics, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met
• Partner with technology team experts (infrastructure, solution engineering, security, data) but challenge the traditional approaches to solutions
• Guides team to work with key stakeholders to assess technical requirements (functional and non functional), current state environment and technology choices to evaluate solution alternatives that meet business needs
• Defines procedures, standards and processes to cover all areas of the Automation program for a specific portfolio or business group
• Manages resources on a project basis including third party consultants