• Must have 5+ years of experience as an Automation Engineer or similar role
• Ansible Expertise:

Advanced Ansible experience: API integrations, data transformation, config management, IaC.

Strong focus on enterprise-level automation.

• Kubernetes Deployment:

Advanced Kubernetes knowledge: scalable deployments, networking, troubleshooting.

Bonus: OpenShift experience.

• CI/CD Expertise:

Automated pipeline creation and integration.

GitOps deployment best practices.

Secret management and security compliance.

Bonus: Experience with GitHub Actions and data pipeline automation.

• Cloud Platform Knowledge:

Strong Azure experience.

GCP familiarity is a plus.

Nice-to-Have Skills (Priority Order)

1. OpenShift Direct Experience
2. GitHub & GitHub Actions
3. Observability & Data Visualization:

Data flow management, visualization platform integration (e.g., Grafana).

1. GCP Expertise
2. Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) Experience
3. Terraform Knowledge
4. Python Development:

Custom Ansible module creation.

1. Consultative Mindset:

Ability to engage with customer stakeholders of various technical backgrounds.

1. Specific Tool Experience (Desirable but not required):

Grafana Alloy, Cribl Stream, Confluent Cloud, Kafka, Grafana, Nautobot.

1. Networking Automation with Ansible:

Experience automating network devices using Ansible.

1. Event-Driven Automation with Ansible