Devops Engineer

Job Title: Sr DevOps Engineer with Automation

Location: Atlanta, GA (Onsite)

Primary Skill - Chef Infra, Chef Automate, Test Kitchen, InSpec

PowerShell, Python, Bash, Chef, or Terraform

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Chef cookbooks, recipes, templates, attributes, and custom resources
• Build and enhance infrastructure automation pipelines for provisioning and configuration
• Implement policy-based configuration using Chef Infra, Test Kitchen, InSpec, and Chef Automate
• Integrate Chef with CI/CD systems (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)
• Perform error handling, versioning, and code reviews for cookbook updates
• Work with platform teams (Compute, Storage, Network, Cloud) to automate repeatable operations
• Troubleshoot configuration drifts, cookbook failures, and infrastructure-level issues
• Enforce compliance and security baselines using Chef InSpec
• Drive automation maturity and reduce manual operational activities
• Prepare documentation, standards, and automation patterns

Required Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with Chef Infra, Chef Automate, Test Kitchen, InSpec
• Proficiency in Ruby, PowerShell, Bash scripting
• Understanding of CI/CD and Git-based workflows
• Experience with Windows/Linux administration
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform)
• Infrastructure automation and configuration management best practices
• Debugging configuration drift and infra-related issues

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and support compute infrastructure across onprem, cloud, and hybrid environments
• Ensure high availability and performance of Windows and Linux compute platforms
• Automate operational tasks using PowerShell, Python, Bash, Chef, or Terraform
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability engineering improvements
• Build dashboards, alerts, and monitoring for compute health and capacity
• Optimize VM sizing, performance tuning, lifecycle management, and patching strategy
• Implement SRE practices: SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, Toil reduction
• Collaborate with network, storage, security, and cloud platform teams
• Drive improvements in scalability, selfhealing, observability, and automation
• Maintain compliance and hardening standards across compute assets

Required Skills:

• Strong Windows/Linux administration background
• Scripting and automation (PowerShell, Python, Bash)
• Experience with configuration management tools (Chef preferred)
• Knowledge of virtualization (VMware/HyperV) and cloud compute (Azure/AWS)
• Understanding of monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor)
• Strong incident management and problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with SRE concepts (SLOs, Error Budgets, Reliability Patterns)