Automation Engineer

Staff Senior Reliability/Automation Engineer - Infrastructure (Hyderabad, India)

The staff senior reliability/automation engineer infrastructure is responsible for building and scaling automation and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) foundations across global compute, storage and backup platforms in Data Center. This role acts as SME and drives repeatable, scalable, version-controlled infrastructure provisioning delivery, improving reliability, speed and consistency. This role collaborates with infrastructure engineering, operations and security teams to include automation into provisioning, configuration and lifecycle management.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive infrastructure automation strategy for compute, storage and backup platforms.
• Design and implement IaC i.e., Infrastructure as Code frameworks to standardize provisioning and configuration.
• For M&As, lead the infrastructure integration automation strategy and plans for compute, storage and backup platforms.
• Execute and lead technically the automation for M&As for seamless integration and migration to Data Centers driving cross-functional technical architectures in collaboration with security, DevOps and business stakeholders.
• Establish, govern version-controlled infrastructure code repositories, branching.
• Develop and maintain IaC templates and modules for compute, storage and backup
• Automate, own technically and lead the provisioning, configuration and operational maintenance tasks to reduce manual work and errors. Deliver as per Say-Do.
• Partner with infrastructure engineering and operations teams to ensure architecture alignments and reusability while embedding reliability, resiliency and compliance standards
• Drive adoption by closely partnering with operations teams, measure and report automation outcomes
• Lead and mentor automation engineers and act as technical automation SME.

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or related fields with strong professional experience in infrastructure engineering and automation engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and IaC for data centers.
• Expertise with IaC and automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python or similar
• Hands-on experience establishing version control systems(Git/Gitlab), CI/CD (like Gitlab CI/Jenkins), Artifacts/state management, secrets management (Vault/CyberArk) and orchestration tools (Spinnaker etc.)
• Good knowledge of RunDeck.
• Solid understanding of compute platforms (Windows and/or Linux OS, VMware, Nutanix and Citrix), storage Dell/EMC PowerStore, Pure, XtremeIO, Unity, VNX etc. and backup/recovery technologies like Veritas, Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam, Rubrik etc.
• People management and project management experience is a must.