Senior DevOps Automation Engineer

BlackCube Labs; Durham (NC); Presencial; USD 103 000 - 110 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

BlackCube Labs seeks a Senior Automation Engineer to lead automation for infrastructure provisioning, builds, and deployments. You will drive CI/CD improvements, create Ansible playbooks, and ensure reliable deployments across environments while collaborating with DevOps and application teams.

Candidates should bring 7+ years of automation with Linux/Ansible, 2+ years Docker/Kubernetes, and strong scripting in Python or Bash. This on-site role includes on-call duties as needed.

Qualificações

• 7+ years automating Linux OS and software patches across multiple environments using Ansible.
• 3+ years hands-on BitBucket or Git SCM experience (branching, merging, configuring).
• 7+ years automating build/deploy processes, including DB changes, with Ansible.
• 7+ years scripting with Python, Bash, or Shell for automation.
• 2+ years building and packaging apps with Docker; managing containerized workloads with Kubernetes.
• 4+ years Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure provisioning and config management.
• 2+ years CI/CD pipelines using TeamCity, Jenkins, and Ansible.
• 2+ years AWS knowledge and infrastructure experience.

Responsabilidades

• Lead automation efforts for infrastructure provisioning, build, and deployment activities.
• Create and maintain Ansible playbooks; troubleshoot automation issues.
• Ensure consistent, reliable deployments across environments; improve CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborate with DevOps and application teams to optimize release processes and tooling.
• Interact with architects, developers, deployment teams, and DBAs to automate tasks.
• On-call evenings and weekends as required to meet business needs.

Conhecimentos

Automation

Ansible

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Python

Linux

Bitbucket

Git

TeamCity

Jenkins

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Pay Range: $75.00hr - $80.00hr

Job Overview:

The organization requires the assistance of a Senior Automation Engineer to help automate and improve the build, deployment, and operation of enterprise applications. The primary role is to lead automation efforts for infrastructure provisioning, build, and deployment activities, requiring a solid understanding of AWS infrastructure and the software release lifecycle.

The primary role is to lead automation efforts for infrastructure provisioning, build, and deployment activities. The successful candidate must demonstrate a solid understanding of AWS infrastructure and the software release lifecycle.

The role involves creating and maintaining Ansible playbooks, troubleshooting automation issues, ensuring consistent and reliable deployments across environments, and collaborating with DevOps and application teams to enhance CI/CD workflows. Strong knowledge of Linux, Ansible Tower/AWX, YAML, automation best practices, and infrastructure-as-code principles is required. Experience with debugging deployments, validating configurations, and improving release reliability is preferred.

The position will work with IT management to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) of application changes. The successful candidate will interact with architects, developers, the deployment team, and database administrators to ensure the automation of various tasks.

This position is required to be on call for evenings and weekends as required to meet business needs.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 7+ years of experience with automating Linux OS and software patches and upgrades across multiple environments using automation tools like Ansible.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience (including branching, merging, configuring, and administering) with BitBucket or GIT Source Code Management tools.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in automating build and deployment processes, including changes to databases, using tools like Ansible.
• 7+ years of experience developing automation scripts, operational utilities, and workflow scripts using Python, Bash, or Shell.
• 2+ years of experience building and packaging applications with Docker, as well as managing and scaling containerized workloads using Kubernetes.
• 4+ years of experience in infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and environment management using Terraform and Ansible.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing and managing CI/CD (DevOps) pipelines using tools like TeamCity, Jenkins, and Ansible.
• 2+ years of strong knowledge and understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and infrastructure.