Infrastructure Automation Engineer - Freelancer

📢Freelancing opportunity – Infrastructure Automation Engineer – 2‑year contract🚀 - Remote - EMEA

🚀The Infrastructure Automation Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining automated solutions that streamline infrastructure operations and improve system reliability. This role focuses on building robust automation workflows for tasks such as server provisioning, software deployment, configuration management, and system monitoring.

💻Essential Skills:

Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

• Experience with IaC tool: Ansible Automation Platform.

Configuration Management:

• Knowledge and experience of configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.

CI/CD:

• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools like Git (Gitlab, Github or similar), Jenkins

Version Control:

• Experience working with version control systems like Git.

Programming/Scripting:

• Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, PowerShell, or others.

Cloud Platforms:

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, or Google Cloud.

📄Nice to have:

Operating Systems:

• Strong understanding of Linux and/or Windows operating systems.

Networking:

• Basic networking knowledge (TCP/IP, DNS, etc.).

Duties and responsibilities:

Automation Design and Development:

• Design and develop automated workflows for tasks such as server provisioning, software deployment, configuration management, and system monitoring.
• Write scripts and code using languages like Python, PowerShell, Bash, or others, depending on the environment.
• Create and maintain automation frameworks and tools.

Configuration Management:

• Utilize configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to automate system configurations and updates.
• Maintain desired state configurations and ensure compliance.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD):

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to automate software builds, testing, and deployments.
• Integrate automation tools with CI/CD platforms like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

• Implement and manage IaC using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Ensure consistency and repeatability in infrastructure deployments.

Monitoring and Alerting:

• Develop automated monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Utilize monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Nagios.

Troubleshooting and Optimization:

• Troubleshoot automation failures and optimize automation scripts and processes.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in IT workflows.

Documentation and Collaboration:

• Document automation processes, scripts, and configurations.
• Collaborate with other IT teams, developers, and stakeholders.
• Keep up to date with new automation technologies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Red Hat Certified Engineer, Terraform Associate) are a plus.
• Proven experience in IT automation roles.