Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optomi, in partnership with a leading organization, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to modernize and automate enterprise server infrastructure and data center operations. The role focuses on developing Python and Ansible automation for provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, remediation, lifecycle management, and hybrid cloud infrastructure strategies.
Responsibilities
- Develop automation solutions for enterprise server infrastructure and data center operations
- Automate server provisioning, configuration, maintenance, monitoring, and lifecycle activities
- Build and maintain Python and Ansible playbooks and automation frameworks
- Develop self-monitoring and automated remediation capabilities
- Automate incident detection and ticket creation through infrastructure monitoring
- Support bare-metal operating system deployments and lifecycle management
- Analyze legacy infrastructure and identify opportunities for automation and modernization
- Develop infrastructure standards, procedures, and automation playbooks
- Troubleshoot server, operating system, and infrastructure issues
- Collaborate with data center, network, security, and infrastructure teams
- Commit automation and infrastructure playbooks into established repositories and operational frameworks
- Help establish scalable, repeatable infrastructure management processes
- Support the transition toward a hybrid cloud infrastructure strategy
Skills
- Strong infrastructure software engineering background
- Experience building software and automation within an infrastructure domain
- Deep understanding of enterprise server infrastructure and operating systems
- Strong Python and/or Ansible experience
- Experience automating infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, or remediation
- Experience working with legacy infrastructure and modernizing existing environments
- Understanding of Windows and Linux operating systems
- Experience with bare-metal infrastructure and data center environments
- Strong troubleshooting and systems engineering skills
- Experience with Python, Ansible, Go, or Java
- Experience with Linux infrastructure
- Windows Server administration experience
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience
- Git and CI/CD experience
- Experience with server hardware, firmware, drivers, and out-of-band management
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, and ITSM platforms
- Experience with hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Experience developing self-healing or autonomous infrastructure
Benefits
- Remote work with quarterly travel to Fort Worth, TX or Topeka, KS
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