Senior Automation Engineer

DataStaff Inc. is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients located in Raleigh, NC.

This position is hybrid

This position is required to be on call for evenings and weekends as required to meet business needs

Responsibilities:

• Lead automation efforts for infrastructure provisioning, build, and deployment activities for NC FAST applications.
• Create and maintain Ansible playbooks.
• Troubleshoot automation issues.
• Ensure consistent and reliable deployments across environments.
• Collaborate with DevOps and application teams to enhance CI/CD workflows.
• Debug deployments, validate configurations, and improve release reliability.
• Work with IT management to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuous integration and Continuous deployment CI/CD of application changes.
• Interact with the architects, developers, deployment Team, and Database Administrators to ensure automation of various tasks.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong knowledge and understanding of AWS infrastructure and the software release life cycle.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, Ansible Tower/AWX YAML automation best practices and infrastructure-as-code principles.

Required Skills:

• 7 Years - Experience with automating Linux OS and software patches and upgrades across multiple environments using automation tools like Ansible
• 3 Years - Hands-on experience (like branching, merging, configuring, and administering) with Bitbucket or GIT Source Code Management tool
• 7 Years - Hands-on experience in automating build/deploy process including changes to database using tools like Ansible
• 7 Years - Experience developing automation scripts, operational utilities, and workflow scripts using Python/Bash/Shell
• 2 Years - Experience building and packaging applications with Docker, and managing and scaling containerized workloads using Kubernetes
• 4 Years - Experience in infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and environment management using Terraform and Ansible
• 2 Years - Hands-on experience developing and managing CI/CD (DevOps) pipelines using tools like TeamCity, Jenkins, Ansible

Desired Skill:

• 2 Years - Strong knowledge and understanding of Amazon Web Services and infrastructure

This opportunity is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.