Infrastructure Automation Engineer (W2/Hybrid/NC)

Role: Infrastructure Automation Engineer Location: Raleigh, NC (Hybrid)Employment Type: W2The primary role is to lead Automation effort of infrastructure provisioning, build and deploy activities for NC FAST applications. This position must demonstrate a solid understanding of AWS infrastructure and software release life cycle.

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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 aplus.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. This position will interact with the architects, developers, deployment Team, and Database Administrators to ensure automation of various tasks.
This position is required to be on call for evenings and weekends as required to meet business needs. xzbcwsv
Skills Required / DesiredExperience with automating Linux OS and software patches and upgrades across multiple environments using automations tools like AnsibleHands on Experience (like branching, merging, configuring, and administering) with BitBucket or GIT Source Code Management toolHands on experience in Automating build/deploy process including changes to database using tools like AnsibleExperience developing automation scripts, operational utilities, and workflow scripts using Python/Bash/ShellExperience building and packaging applications with Docker, and managing and scaling containerized workloads using KubernetesExperience in infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and environment management using Terraform and AnsibleHands on experience developing and managing CI/CD (DevOps) pipeline using tools like Teamcity, Jenkins, AnsibleStrong knowledge and understanding of Amazon web Services and infrastructure
Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.