DevOps Engineer Terraform & Ansible

Job Title: DevOps Engineer - Terraform & Ansible

Location: Onsite - San Jose, CA Rate: $70/Hr

For this role, SUSE hands-on experience is mandatory, not optional.



Core Mandatory:

• SUSE (SLES) Administration (installation, builds, patching, troubleshooting)
• UNIX Builds from scratch
• Production Support (monitoring, performance, capacity)
• Patching tools (SUSE Manager / Satellite / NIM)
• Bash/Python Scripting
• Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, SSH)
• OS Hardening & Access Control

strongly Preferred (but not absolute mandate):

AIX / RHEL / CentOS (in addition to SUSE)

Ansible Automation

VMware / OpenShift

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer to join our team in building and maintaining scalable infrastructure solutions. This is not a typical Linux SysAdmin role we need someone with engineering depth who can design, deploy, and maintain automation workflows across our cloud and on-prem environments.



Key Responsibilities

~Design, develop, and maintain Terraform modules and infrastructure automation pipelines.

~Develop Ansible playbooks and roles, deploy and maintain automation across production and non-production environments.

~Manage, troubleshoot, and support RHEL Linux systems; SUSE/AIX experience is a plus.

~Integrate infrastructure components using Python scripting for automation and process efficiency.

~Collaborate with the development team to deploy and manage applications in OpenShift or virtualized environments.

~Participate in configuration management, infrastructure standardization, and operational improvements.

~Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues; support maintenance and minor OS-level tasks.



Must-Have Skills

~Terraform - hands-on development and deployment experience.

~Ansible - deep experience building roles and automation playbooks.

~RHEL Linux - experience supporting and troubleshooting production environments.

~Python - basic to moderate scripting experience for automation.

~Proven ability to work in an engineering-focused, DevOps-oriented environment.

~Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, growth-oriented mindset.

~Basic UNIX skills -Somebody that can jump into the OS and do support/maintenance -not going to be the major part of this role.

~Client primarily deal with RHEL

~Exposure to SUSE or AIX environments.

Strong Terraform + Ansible experience, some OpenShift/VM knowledge, and the ability to integrate all components into a working system.