Jr.- Mid Level Infrastructure Engineer/Developer (W2 ONLY) - TEKsystems

***Must be able to work on W2 basis and NO 3rd Party candidate due to client requirements

***Hybrid -2 days onsite in Jersey City

**MUST HAVE ANSIBLE experience

Description:

The Infrastructure Developer will focus on transforming our Infrastructure as code (IaC) and building new application environments through automation and orchestration. They will deliver self-service capabilities or consulting that enable the firm and improve customer experience through IaC and Automation.

Must have:

1. infrastructure as code - terraform or ansible - will be working with teams on automating platforms/products etc
2. come from a programming background in python
3. GIT - source code management and version control and working knowledge of gitflow.

Experience needed:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

• 1-2 years coding experience minimum

• Experience using GIT for source code management and version control and working knowledge of gitflow.

• Experience coding with at least one of these languages or tools : Chef, Ansible, Python, Terraform

• Understanding of the Red Hat Linux Operating System and its key components

• Ability to navigate and modify files on Red Hat Linux Systems via command line

• Foundational knowledge of Infrastructure components such as storage, networking, and server.

• Good communication skills and problem-solving ability.

• Desire to learn new technologies and programming languages

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate requirements, design, and implement automated solutions that meet the needs of our business with a focus on self-service automation.

• Identify continuous improvement opportunities for existing automation enablement platforms and services and implement enhancements.

• Identify bugs and issues with existing automated platforms and services and implement fixes.

• Administration of our automation tools including but not limited to: user access, monitoring environment health, performing application upgrades, designing infrastructure to meet capacity, performance, and availability needs, providing knowledge transfer to level one support teams, opening support cases with vendor and escalation as needed.

• Identify pain points and inefficient processes and develop creative automated solutions to solve them.

• Evaluate return on investment of automation opportunities to aid in prioritization.

• Establish ways to measure the value our automated solutions will realize for our customers.

• Promote the benefits of automation by contributing to communications outlining the value our solutions provide to the organization.

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

• Experience developing Ansible Playbooks and administering Ansible Tower/Ansible Automation Platform

• Experience writing Chef Cookbooks to manage Infrastructure Configurations and Software

• Experience coding with Terraform

• Experience coding with Angular

• Experience administering the Chef Server

• Experience with Linux Shell Scripting and/or Python coding

• Experience working with AWS cloud services

• Experience using Scrum or Kanban to manage tasks

• Foundational Knowledge of AWS Cloud and Services especially ec2

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.