Senior Staff Engineer (Cloud, Ansible)

REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience : 7.5+ Years
• Solid, practical experience with Ansible and Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Intermediate Python programming skills for tool and script development.
• Proven experience using AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code and infrastructure automation patterns.
• Hands-on experience with API integrations for system and service automation.
• Familiarity with core infrastructure domains such as network, storage, or compute.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical requirements into solutions and collaborate effectively in a distributed team.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking for tackling complex automation challenges.
• High learning agility and a self-directed mindset to rapidly adapt to new technologies and tools.
• Commitment to team collaboration, constructive peer reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Adherence to code quality standards: Git version control, mandatory peer reviews, unit and validation testing, and comprehensive documentation.
• Experience leveraging LLMs (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) for problem-solving and employing prompt engineering techniques.
• Development of automation following key principles: idempotency, modularity, configuration-as-code, validation-first approaches, and observability.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and maintain automation features and capabilities with high-level architectural guidance.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of shared tools, frameworks, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Actively participate in code and design peer reviews, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Document automation workflows, processes, and runbooks to ensure clarity and reproducibility.
• Design, implement, and maintain cost-efficient, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Support the migration of existing workloads and applications to AWS cloud environments.
• Implement, manage, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins.
• Deploy, manage, and orchestrate containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Perform configuration management and automation using Ansible.
• Monitor system performance, availability, and implement centralized logging solutions.
• Automate routine operational tasks using scripting languages like Python and Bash.
• Manage and maintain code in version control systems such as Git.
• Assist in the administration and configuration of collaboration tools like Jira and Confluence.

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.