Salt Stack Infrastructure Automation Engineer // Remote within US

  • Posted 4 days ago | Updated 8 hours ago

Overview

Remote
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - term contract

Skills

(SaltStack OR Salt OR Salt State OR Salt Formula OR Salt Pillar OR Salt Orchestration OR Jinja OR YAML OR TOML)
(AWS OR Amazon Web Services)
(GitLab CI OR GitLab Pipeline OR CI/CD OR GitOps)

Job Details

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Salt Stack Infrastructure Automation Engineer (5+ years)

Remote Within US

10+ months Contract

Scope/Background:

  • Rewrite the legacy COBOL mainframe EAP application in Rust; design with security-first patterns (authZ/authN, encryption).
  • Stand up DevOps/CI-CD in GitLab; implement automated test suites across SDLC and support UAT.
  • Deliver infrastructure automation with Salt (AWS/Kubernetes), including one-touch deployments and blue/green strategies; docs in Antora/AsciiDoc stored with code in GitLab

Project Overview: The project modernizes Clients' (Bs EAP by rewriting the COBOL mainframe application in Rust, while standing up a secure, automated delivery pipeline: GitLab hosts code, CI/CD, and versioned docs (AsciiDoc/Antora), and Salt drives auditable infrastructure and one-touch deployments across Dev, UAT, and Prod. Work starts with requirements workshops and business-rule indexing, proceeds through secure architecture/design, Rust development with automated test suites, and UAT, and culminates in production cutover with a stabilization (hypercare) window.

Role summary: Own infrastructure-as-code with Salt for AWS/Kubernetes; deliver secure, repeatable environments and blue/green release enablement.

Key responsibilities:

  • Author/maintain Salt states, formulas, pillars, and Jinja templates for app, data, and platform layers.
  • Build GitOps-style pipelines (GitLab) for infra changes, secrets handling, and environment promotion (Dev UAT Prod).
  • Integrate with Kubernetes (e.g., salt-ssh or salt-kube), bootstrap nodes, and manage cluster add-ons.
  • Implement security baselines: CIS hardening, TLS, IAM roles/policies, key rotation, logging/monitoring hooks.
  • Support blue/green cutovers; create rollback/runbooks and SLO/SLA monitoring (logs, metrics, alerts).
  • Document runbooks, topology diagrams, and operations guides in Antora/AsciiDoc.

Required qualifications:

  • 5+ years with SaltStack (states, pillars, orchestration, event/reactor), plus strong Jinja/YAML/TOML templating.
  • AWS production experience (IAM, VPC, EKS, EC2, RDS/S3, Parameter Store/Secrets Manager).
  • CI/CD for infra (GitLab CI or similar), artifact/version management, and change control.
  • Kubernetes operations (manifests/Helm/Kustomize, ingress, service meshes a plus).
  • Security/compliance mindset; experience implementing least-privilege and auditability.

Nice to have:

  • Experience extending Salt or writing custom modules; Python scripting for glue/ops.
  • Observability stacks (CloudWatch/PrometheGrafana/ELK/OpenTelemetry).
  • Environment provisioning lead time, change failure rate, deployment frequency, and recovery time after change.

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