Infrastructure as Code- French Speakers Consultant
An Ia C Engineer is responsible for creating automated pipelines to provision and configure infrastructure using software development practices such as CI/CD, automated testing and Git Ops. This person has both strong Dev Sec Ops skills as well as a good understanding of the infrastructure that is to be provisioned. This role is responsible for building the Ia C framework for a customer and is also responsible for enabling the customer to extend and scale the framework in the future, through mentoring and pairing.
This role will also be involved to introducing automation to other teams, allowing the Ia C framework to integrate with these teams, fostering an automation community of practice at the customer and fostering an agile mentality within operations teams.
Responsibilities
Enabling operations teams in both coding practices and on the usage of the IAC framework
Enabling the customer’s automation architecture
Automating customer infrastructure and services
Integrating automation with customer ITSM processes
Gathering requirements from automation use cases to improve the IAC automation framework
Required Skills and Experience
General:
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.
CI/CD Concepts and Tools
Experience using CI/CD techniques in Dev Ops and Ia C approaches
Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins
Experience with Git and Git Ops in a Continuous Delivery pipeline
Experience with containerized workloads in a Continuous Delivery pipeline.
Programming/Scripting in an Ia C Framework
Experience of Linux
Experience with API development and use in Ia C
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/Power Shell
Basic administrator knowledge of Unix systems.
Provisioning and Configuration Tools
Experience automating with Ansible
Experience with writing declarative code and understand why it is beneficial in an Ia C approach
Experience with Terraform and understand how it can be used to provision targets in Ia C
Secrets and certificates management:
Experience with Password/Secrets Management e.g. Vault
Service Catalogues and Ia C
Experience with integrating Service Catalogues (e.g. Service Now) into an Ia C framework
Cloud infrastructure
Experience with public cloud provider as Microsoft Azure, AWS or GCP
Experience with on-prem private cloud as VMware v Sphere, Tanzu, Open Shift