Automation Engineer

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Location:
Remote (For time zone purposes candidates must be in either US PST/Hawaii, Taiwan or Australia)

Duration: 1 year+ cth

Job Summary:

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Automation Engineer to join our infrastructure and operations team. In this role, you will focus on building and maintaining automation frameworks and operational tooling that ensure consistency, visibility, and high performance across our infrastructure. You will work closely with other infrastructure, SRE, and monitoring teams to improve system reliability, reduce manual toil, and integrate observability platforms using tools like Ansible, Victoria metrics, Prometheus, SALT Stack, Cloud Vision, Big Panda, and Kentik.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work on Nvidia in-house automation framework built to convert workflows in the form of “SOPs” (standards of practice) into automated steps.
• Design, develop, and maintain automation playbooks using Ansible and SALT Stack to manage automation workflows.
• Integrate and scale infrastructure monitoring and alerting platforms such as Prometheus, Big Panda, and Kentik.
• Collaborate with network teams to automate and orchestrate tasks using Arista Cloud Vision APIs etc. and automation pipelines.
• Implement and optimize observability dashboards, alert routing, and remediation logic across systems and tools.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem documentation.
• Champion automation best practices, infrastructure-as-code principles, and continuous improvement of deployment pipelines.
• Build scalable solutions to reduce manual operational burden and support environment growth.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as an Automation, Dev Ops, or SRE Engineer in large-scale infrastructure environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible and SALT Stack for configuration management and automation.
• Solid understanding of Prometheus metrics collection, exporters, and alerting rules.
• Experience integrating and managing observability and incident management platforms like Big Panda and Kentik.
• Working knowledge of Arista Cloud Vision and associated automation tooling or APIs.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Comfortable working in Linux-based systems and cloud/hybrid environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and alert correlation strategies.
• Experience in agile environments and collaborative Dev Ops culture.
• Exposure to network telemetry and advanced diagnostics with Victoria metrics, Prometheus and similar tools.

Remote conditions

For time zone purposes candidates must be in either US PST/Hawaii, Taiwan or Australia

• Seniority level
  
  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type
  
  Contract

• Industries IT Services and IT Consulting

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