Senior Automation Engineer

• Location: Durham, North Carolina
• Type: Contract
• Job #12822

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.