Automation Engineer

Tekgence Inc; California (MO); Remote; USD 111,000 - 164,000; Part time

Job summary

A tech services company is looking for a skilled Automation Engineer to join their infrastructure team. This remote role focuses on building and maintaining automation frameworks, enhancing system reliability, and integrating observability platforms. Candidates should have extensive experience with Ansible, SALT Stack, and Prometheus metrics within large-scale environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an Automation, DevOps, or SRE Engineer in large-scale infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible and SALT Stack for configuration management.
• Solid understanding of Prometheus metrics collection and alerting.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automation playbooks for workflows.
• Integrate and scale infrastructure monitoring platforms.
• Participate in root cause analysis and incident documentation.

Skills

Ansible

SALT Stack

Prometheus metrics

Incident management platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Linux systems

Tools

Ansible

SALT Stack

Prometheus

BigPanda

Kentik

Arista CloudVision

Job description

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Location: Remote (For time zone purposes candidates must be in either US PST/Hawaii, Taiwan or Australia)

Duration: 1 year+ cth

Job Summary:

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Automation Engineer to join our infrastructure and operations team. In this role, you will focus on building and maintaining automation frameworks and operational tooling that ensure consistency, visibility, and high performance across our infrastructure. You will work closely with other infrastructure, SRE, and monitoring teams to improve system reliability, reduce manual toil, and integrate observability platforms using tools like Ansible, Victoriametrics, Prometheus, SALT Stack, CloudVision, BigPanda, and Kentik.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work on Nvidia in-house automation framework built to convert workflows in the form of “SOPs” (standards of practice) into automated steps.
• Design, develop, and maintain automation playbooks using Ansible and SALT Stack to manage automation workflows.
• Integrate and scale infrastructure monitoring and alerting platforms such as Prometheus, BigPanda, and Kentik.
• Collaborate with network teams to automate and orchestrate tasks using Arista CloudVision APIs etc. and automation pipelines.
• Implement and optimize observability dashboards, alert routing, and remediation logic across systems and tools.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem documentation.
• Champion automation best practices, infrastructure-as-code principles, and continuous improvement of deployment pipelines.
• Build scalable solutions to reduce manual operational burden and support environment growth.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as an Automation, DevOps, or SRE Engineer in large-scale infrastructure environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible and SALT Stack for configuration management and automation.
• Solid understanding of Prometheus metrics collection, exporters, and alerting rules.
• Experience integrating and managing observability and incident management platforms like BigPanda and Kentik.
• Working knowledge of Arista CloudVision and associated automation tooling or APIs.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Comfortable working in Linux-based systems and cloud/hybrid environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and alert correlation strategies.
• Experience in agile environments and collaborative DevOps culture.
• Exposure to network telemetry and advanced diagnostics with Victoriametrics, Prometheus and similar tools.

Remote conditions

For time zone purposes candidates must be in either US PST/Hawaii, Taiwan or Australia

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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