Automation / Cloud Services

ELYON International - Camp Pendleton, CA

- Senior

Camp Pendleton, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The position involves implementing automation across all layers of infrastructure, including provisioning, configuration management, deployment, testing, and operation. The role requires retooling infrastructure to create an agile foundation that supports joint infrastructure management and automation frameworks. The individual will interface directly with staff members to assess compliance with IT policies and suggest improvements. Responsibilities also include building automation for applications, networks, and services in various environments, partnering with infrastructure teams to automate processes, and ensuring timely integration with testing and development teams. The role requires committing automation code to source control and training operations team members on the automation built. Additionally, the position involves configuring and administering cloud technologies in hyperscale platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as on-premises cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Implement automation across all layers - infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, deployment, testing, and operation.
• Retool infrastructure to provide an agile foundation that provides joint infrastructure management and automation framework.
• Interface directly with staff members within the organization to discuss and assess compliance with IT policies, standards and procedures and suggest opportunities for improvement.
• Build automation to configure applications, networks, and services, in a production, testing, and development environment.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to identify and automate processes to reduce technical debt, set up CI/CD pipelines, and optimize build/testing/deployment times.
• Work with testing and development teams throughout the testing life cycle ensuring timely integration.
• Commit all automation code and supporting files to source control (git and GitLab).
• Train operations team members to use the automation the team builds.
• Configure and administer cloud technologies in hyperscale cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP among others.
• Configure and administer cloud services in on-premises platforms (e.g. Azure Stack family of systems, Amazon Snow family of systems, etc.)

Requirements

• Documented network and system administration experience
• Documented virtualization technology experience (e.g. VMWare, Linux, Windows, etc.)
• Experience with source control using git and GitHub/GitLab repositories.
• Experience leading medium to large projects by bringing together the right perspectives, identifying roadblocks, and integrating feedback from clients and team members.
• 7+ years of experience in Infrastructure IT Operations.
• 5+ years of software automation and development experience.
• 2+ years scripting language experience.
• Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level I or Level II certification.
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation.
• Cloud Computing certifications (e.g. Azure Administrator, AWS Associate Level Cert, etc.).
• Experience with on-premises cloud technologies (e.g. Azure Stack, Amazon Snow, etc.)
• Security Clearance: Active Secret clearance is required.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in IT Operations in relation to Systems & Network Architecture, and AI/ML environments.
• Previous experience in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) or DevOps role.
• Experience in distributed systems design and integration architectures of business applications using micro services, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructures.
• Experience or familiarity with either Amazon Web Services (AWS) features or management, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Azure.
• Experience in creating and running Ansible playbooks, both CLI (Ansible Core) and AWX/Tower/AAP (Ansible Automation Platform).
• Python scripting, including scripts that call APIs like AWS and ServiceNow.
• Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-a-code platform.
• Strong passion for quality assurance in development, including experience in finding, investigating, and fixing bugs.
• Excellent communication skills.

Benefits

• Paid sick leave
• Medical/Dental (optional)
• 401 (k) Retirement Plan (optional)
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Employer Paid Short Term Disability
• Optional Life Insurance