Senior IaC Engineer

PGTEK; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

PGTEK is seeking a senior automation and DevOps consultant to lead architecture and hands-on delivery of IaC pipelines for complex infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments.

You will drive CI/CD adoption, mentor teams, and collaborate with clients to design scalable, secure solutions. Strong scripting (Python/PowerShell/Bash) and REST API experience are valued, with a focus on automation and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience with DevOps and IaC practices to automate provisioning and delivery.
• Ability to architect end-to-end infrastructure workflows across on-premises and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical and architectural work streams and mentor teams.
• Collaborate on large automation projects with consultants and client teams.
• Architect IaC pipelines to provision and decommission infrastructure.
• Configure infrastructure using CI/CD, automated tests, and version control.
• Deliver IaC solutions and ensure alignment with security and compliance.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Cloud architecture

Infrastructure automation

IaC Expertise

CI/CD pipelines

Leadership

Mentoring

Client engagement

REST API

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

AWX

GitLab

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Harness

Jenkins

Terraform Enterprise

JSON/YAML

Job description

Technical Skills Required

• Practitioner of Agile methodology for software engineering and development
• Architectural understanding and experience in the end-to-end workflow.

• Salary:** $180,000 - $220,000

• Practitioner of Agile methodology for software engineering and development
• Architectural understanding and experience in the end-to-end workflow.

• Including service portals, and solutioning of infrastructure provisioning on premises and on cloud platforms

• Strong knowledge of the tooling and software development concepts necessary for infrastructure automation to deliver quality outcomes.
• Consulting experience to assist our customers in advancing their knowledge and practices
• Including leadership, presentation, and mentoring skills
• Significant hands‑on experience with automating, provisioning, and configuring large‑scale infrastructure.
• Experience automating Compute/Storage/Network with Ansible (Core and AWX/AAP) and Terraform Enterprise
• Experience with writing and understanding declarative code for pipelines for an IAC approach.
• Experience in the workflow to provision and decommission a VM.
• 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.

• Experienced in REST API development and use in IaC.
• Experienced in JSON/YAML
• Experience and understanding with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and how it can be used to improve quality.
• Capable to code in languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash scripting
• Ability 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

Soft Skills Required

• Strong analytical and design skills.
• Ability to work well within and across teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Ability to contribute to technical workshops that engage the customer, gather requirements, design, and drive solutions.
• 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, establish trust, and build consensus between stakeholders.
• Can define work outputs and functional outcomes for a SOW and engagement team.
• Awareness of stakeholders and ability to influence outcomes.
• Ability to enable others through coaching and pairing.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for technical and team leadership, design, planning,

• Collaborate on large team assignments with other automation consultants.
• Assist consultants with skills and knowledge needed for assignments.
• Architecting a solution for IaC creating automated pipelines to provision
• Configure infrastructure using software development practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, and version control.
• Build and successfully enable IaC solutions for a customer.
• Elicit technical and functional requirements from business and IT stakeholders based on the infrastructure specific solutioning, technical process dependencies, security, and compliance.
• Engage a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for product and tool specific requirements.
• Validates requirements, establish prototypes, and create functionality design.
• Oversee creation and quality of proposals that address current and evolving client requirements.
• Provide issue resolution as point of contact for technical questions.
• Leads code reviews, test processes, and certification of software.
• Facilitate client and internal meetings.
• Present architecture and design solutions.
• Provide expertise and support to other team members across project and presales activities and current engagements.

ABOUT PGTEK

PGTEK is a true consulting organization dedicated to helping clients achieve their business and technology objectives utilizing our decades of experience and business relationships. PGTEK invests in the educational advancements of our staff by providing the necessary resources to complete Professional and Business Certifications. Our company is our people, and we treat them like family. EOE, including disability/veterans.