About This Role
Designing, developing, and implementing automation solutions across various infrastructure environments is the core of this engineering role. The Automation Engineer will focus on improving the efficiency, reliability, and scalability of IT operations by leveraging automation frameworks across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and optimize automation scripts and frameworks using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, Python, Shell
- Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, and lifecycle management of servers, storage, network, and cloud resources
- Create reusable automation modules and templates for standardizing infrastructure deployments
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for cloud and on-prem environments using Terraform, ARM templates, CloudFormation, or Bicep
- Manage versioning, modularization, and CI/CD integration for IaC artifacts
- Work with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) to automate deployment workflows
- Integrate automation with ITSM/CMDB systems (ServiceNow preferred)
- Support orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, VMware vRealize Automation
- Automate monitoring configurations, alert setups, and self-healing workflows using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk
- Implement event-driven automation for proactive issue resolution
- Troubleshoot automation failures, optimize scripts, and improve reliability of automated workflows
- Collaborate with platform, cloud, and network teams to identify automation opportunities and translate them into technical solutions
- Ensure automated deployments comply with security, audit, and compliance standards (BFSI/ISO27001/SOC2 where applicable)
- Automate security controls, patching, hardening, and policy enforcement
Requirements
- Strong expertise in Python, PowerShell, Bash/Shell scripting
- Hands-on with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
- Experience with containerization (Docker), Kubernetes, and orchestration
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP, preferably Azure for BFSI)
- Knowledge of virtualization (VMware ESXi, vCenter, Hyper-V)
- Understanding of networking concepts: DNS, load balancing, firewalls, routing
- Familiarity with Git, branching strategies, and DevOps practices
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, and automation testing
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Good communication and documentation skills
- Ability to work collaboratively in agile and cross-functional teams