Infrastructure as Code - Consultant

An IaC Engineer is responsible for creating automated pipelines to provision and configure infrastructure using software development practices such as CI/CD, automated testing and GitOps. This role involves building the IaC framework for a customer and enabling them to extend and scale it in the future.

Requirements

• Good interpersonal skills and cultural awareness.
• Proactive, self-starter and ability to work within deadlines.
• Ability to work in an agile environment in sprints and in an iterative manner
• Significant hands-on experience, automating the provisioning and configuration of large-scale infrastructure.
• Ability to work well within and across teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Strong communication skills and an ability to enable others through coaching and pairing.
• Experience using CI/CD techniques in DevOps and IaC approaches
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins
• Experience with Git and GitOps in a Continuous Delivery pipeline
• Experience with containerized workloads in a Continuous Delivery pipeline.
• Experience of Linux
• Experience with API development and use in IaC
• Experience with JSON/YAML
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and understand how it can be used to improve quality.
• Experience with Agile Software Development methodologies and Agile project management tools such as JIRA
• Experience with scripting such as Python /Powershell /BASH/PowerShell
• Basic administrator knowledge of Unix systems.
• Experience automating with Ansible
• Experience with writing declarative code and understand why it is beneficial in an IaC approach
• Experience with Terraform and understand how it can be used to provision targets in IaC
• Experience with Password/Secrets Management e.g. Vault
• Experience with integrating Service Catalogues (e.g. ServiceNow) into an IaC framework
• Experience with public cloud provider as Microsoft Azure, AWS or GCP
• Experience with on-prem private cloud as VMware vSphere, Tanzu, OpenShift

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on large-scale infrastructure automation
• Chance to enable others through coaching and pairing
• Opportunity to work in an agile environment