Job Description:
Job Description:
Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer (Zero-Touch GPU Cloud Build & Upgrade)
We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer with 10+ years of hands on experience in building and scaling infrastructure automation systems to lead the design and implementation of a Zero-Touch Build, Upgrade, and Certification framework for our on-prem GPU cloud environment. This role demands deep technical expertise across bare-metal provisioning, configuration management, and full-stack automationfrom hardware to Kubernetesbuilt entirely on GitOps principles.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, lead, and implement a fully automated, zero-touch deployment pipeline for GPU cloud infrastructure spanning hardware OS Kubernetes platform layers.
- Build robust GitOps-based workflows to manage end-to-end infrastructure lifecyclefrom provisioning to continuous compliance.
- Design and maintain automation for:
- Bare-metal control: Power cycling, provisioning, remote installs
- Firmware and configuration flashing: BIOS, NIC, RAID, etc.
- Hardware inventory management
- Configuration drift detection and remediation
- Develop and extend internal automation frameworks using Ansible, Python, and related infrastructure tooling.
- Serve as a technical authority and mentor, guiding junior engineers and collaborating cross-functionally with hardware, SRE, and platform engineering teams.
- Lead architectural and design reviews for infrastructure automation systems.
- Define and implement best practices for infrastructure as code, compliance, and operational resilience.
- Champion automation-driven operational models and reduce manual intervention to near-zero.
- Bonus: Familiarity with Terraform, Chef, and Cloud Automation Platforms.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, automation, and systems design, with a strong track record of delivering scalable and maintainable solutions.
- Primary key skills required are Ansible, Python, ipmitool, firmware scripting, Linux shell scripting
- Deep expertise in:
- Ansible for automation and configuration management
- Python for scripting, integration, and automation logic
- ipmitool and related tools for low-level hardware management (e.g., IPMI, Redfish)
- Proven experience with bare-metal automation in data center environments, including:
- Power control and PXE booting
- BIOS/NIC/RAID firmware upgrades
- Hardware and platform inventory systems
- Strong foundation in Linux systems, networking, and Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Fluency with GitOps workflows and tools.
- Experience with CI/CD systems and managing Git-based pipelines for infrastructure.
- Familiarity with infrastructure monitoring, logging, and drift detection.
- Strong cross-team collaboration and communication skills, especially across hardware, platform, and SRE teams.
- Bonus:
- Prior leadership or mentorship roles
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source infrastructure projects
- Exposure to GPU-based compute stacks and high-performance workloads
