Kyndryl, Inc. Hiring for Automation Engineer – Resiliency Orchestration Product Development at CHENNAI, India Full Time

Your Role and Responsibilities

Our team is seeking a strong Automation Engineer, who has experience in leading, designing/architecting as well as ground level execution (development and delivery) in various cloud solutions and services contexts (with emphasis on orchestration, automation and integration).

Job Responsibilities:

• Automation of business processes and software deployment/configuration through a variety of frameworks, development languages and tools (primarily ruby, python, java script, bash, etc., but Chef their associated DSLs/programming languages can be considered).

• Contribute and provide input and/or direction for the overall development processes and development operations (DevOps), throughout system/software development lifecycle.

• Design, Development and implementation of the automation and services developed in various cloud platforms (both public and private) and service models

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with Chef.

• Experience with VMware technologies.

• Experience in Software Development Projects using agile development methodologies (SCRUM).

• Experience with the Azure, AWS and Google public clouds.

• Operating Systems: Experienced Linux system engineer. Can perform most tasks with no assistance.

• At least 3 years hands-on experience with Red Hat Linux family

• Virtualization and Cloud Computing: Senior level virtualization skills. Can perform most virtualization tasks with minimum assistance.

• At least 12 months experience building container-based solutions using one or more of Openshift, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm.

• At least 6 months hands-on experience with Linux KVM (libvirt, libguestfs, virsh, qemu, qemu-img, virtio) or equivalent experience using Xen, Oracle VM.

• Understanding of cloud service models – IaaS/PaaS/Saas – considered a plus.Ansible – Technical Experience

• Install Ansible/ Red Hat Ansible Engine on control nodes.

• Create and update inventories of managed hosts and manage connections to them.

• Automate administration tasks with Ansible playbooks and adhoc commands.

• Write effective Ansible playbooks at scale

• Protect sensitive data used by Ansible with Ansible Vault Reuse code and simplify playbook development with Ansible roles

• Configure Ansible managed nodes

• Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes

• Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes

• Create Ansible plays and playbooks

• Know how to work with commonly used Ansible

Deep Understanding core components of Ansible:

• Inventories

• Modules

• Variables

• Facts

• Plays

• Playbooks

• Configuration files

• Automation Development – Any kind of automation development in SDLC to bring effectiveness. Preferably using Ruby, Python, bash, etc. which can return JSON for Ansible.

• Working knowledge of software repositories like github or bitbucket

• Cloud – Knowledge on OpenStack, VMWare, AWS, Azure, SoftLayer, Google Cloud etc., will be further helpful.

• Knowledge and experience with various cloud service and deployment models (ie: IaaS, PaaS, XaaS, on-premise, off-premise, etc.)

• Sysadmin background (with both implementation and support experience in terms of infrastructure, servers, OSes, middleware and databases)

• Understanding of several middleware such as Oracle, SAP, DB2, MySql, Apache, IIS, etc.,

• Solid background with operating systems deployment and administration (various Linux/Unix flavours-RHEL/SLES, AIX as well as Windows Servers)

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Install Ansible/ Red Hat Ansible Engine on control nodes.

• Create and update inventories of managed hosts and manage connections to them.

• Automate administration tasks with Ansible playbooks and adhoc commands.

• Write effective Ansible playbooks at scale

• Protect sensitive data used by Ansible with Ansible Vault Reuse code and simplify playbook development with Ansible roles

• Configure Ansible managed nodes

• Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes

• Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes

• Create Ansible plays and playbooks

• Know how to work with commonly used Ansible modules

• Use variables to retrieve the results of running commands

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Chef.

• Experience with VMware technologies.

• Experience in Software Development Projects using agile development methodologies (SCRUM).

• Experience with the Azure, AWS and Google public clouds.

Soft Skills (100% coverage required)

• Strong spoken and written communication skills

• Demonstrated ability to work in large teams with geography spread

• Ability to lead small teams technically

• Client facing experience and skills

Required Education Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Education Master’s Degree

Country/Region India

State / Province MULTIPLE

City / Township / Village MULTIPLE CITIES

Being You @ Kyndryl

Kyndryl is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. Kyndryl is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Other things to know

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Primary job category Software Development & Support

Role ( Job Role ) Software Developer

Employment Type Full-Time

Contract type Regular

Position Type Professional

Travel Required No Travel

Company (Y030) Kyndryl Solutions Private Limited

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position? No