Job Description

The Automation Engineer is a development role with a strong emphasis on efficiently scaling out and maintaining OffSecs infrastructure. This role will be part of a team focused on creating and scaling out new solutions that leverage multiple cloud environments and vendor services to deliver reliable services for staff and students. Duties and responsibilities Use Ansible and Terraform to scale production systems Document existing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Work collaboratively with our Development, Devops, and Site Reliability teams to document new IaC Automate repetitive tasks to help reduce toil Optimize application and infrastructure performance though automation and tuning Write runbooks to automate repetitive tasks using Ansible and Terraform Share knowledge as a resource for the rest of the team about Ansible and Terraform Evaluate new and emerging products, technologies and make recommendations concerning the introduction of new technologies Stay up to date on new Ansible releases and how they affect the fleet Assist in logging and monitoring performance to address errors and address bottlenecks Respond to and resolve infrastructure incidents and outages Participate in on-call rotations to ensure service reliability Document incident post-mortems and implement preventative measures Qualifications Must be passionate about Ansible and using it to save the planet 3-5 years Ansible experience 3-5 years system administration experience Experience using version control software (git, subversion, etc) Tower/AWX experience Experience supporting systems through the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) - with a firm understanding and use of best practices and the various stages of the SDLC workflow Comfortable working in complex systems and environments Experienced with multiple cloud hosting providers - AWS, Digital Ocean, RackSpace, etc. Programing experience (Python or Ruby) Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to present technical ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences System administration experience MS Windows OS Linux OS VMWare Nice to Haves Degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science or other related field OSCP Significant programming experience

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