Windows Infrastructure Automation Engineer
- VDART Inc.
10 Hours Ago
NA
C2C
Remote
8-10 Years
Required Skills: Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022, 2025, PowerShell, Ansible, Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform, Packer, Git, GitLab CI/CD, VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Active Directory, REST APIs, JSON, YAML, DNS, IPAM, ServiceNow, CMDB, Python, SQL, Enterprise monitoring and observability platforms
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain automation supporting the Windows Server lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, modification, upgrade, remediation, and decommissioning.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using technologies such as Terraform, Ansible Automation Platform, PowerShell, and Packer.
- Create reusable Ansible roles, Terraform modules, PowerShell modules, APIs, and automation components.
- Automate Windows Server configuration, including operating system settings, domain integration, networking, security controls, enterprise agents, monitoring tools, and application prerequisites.
- Build and maintain standardized Windows Server golden images for VMware, AWS, Azure, and other supported infrastructure platforms.
- Integrate automation with VMware vSphere/VCF, AWS, Azure, Active Directory, DNS/IPAM, CMDB, monitoring platforms, and other enterprise services.
- Consume and integrate REST APIs and platform SDKs to automate infrastructure operations.
- Develop workflows for retrieving and managing infrastructure information such as virtual machines, datacenters, datastores, folders, tags, operating system information, and configuration metadata.
- Support automation associated with Windows Server modernization, operating system upgrades, migrations, and retirement of legacy infrastructure.
- Develop event-driven automation and automated remediation workflows.
- Troubleshoot automation failures across Windows, networking, authentication, APIs, cloud platforms, virtualization platforms, and enterprise integrations.
- Participate in code reviews and establish development standards for infrastructure automation.
- Maintain automation source code using Git-based version control and CI/CD practices.
- Create technical documentation, operational procedures, and reusable automation patterns.
- Identify repetitive, manual, or failure-prone operational processes and develop automated solutions.
- Partner with infrastructure, cloud, networking, security, application, database, and service management teams to deliver end-to-end infrastructure automation.
- Help enable self-service infrastructure capabilities while maintaining enterprise security and governance requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Experience administering and engineering Microsoft Windows Server environments.
- Experience with configuration management or automation platforms such as Ansible.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform.
- Experience working with REST APIs, JSON, and API-based infrastructure integrations.
- Experience with Git and modern source control practices.
- Understanding of Active Directory, DNS, networking, certificates, authentication, and Windows security concepts.
- Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure and automation issues.
- Ability to convert manual technical procedures into reliable, reusable automation.
- Ability to work across multiple infrastructure and application teams in a large enterprise environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform / Automation Controller.
- Experience developing Ansible roles and collections for Windows infrastructure.
- Experience with Terraform in enterprise environments.
- Experience using Packer to create standardized Windows Server images.
- Experience with VMware vSphere or VMware Cloud Foundation APIs and automation.
- Experience with AWS infrastructure and Windows Server workloads.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure and Windows Server workloads.
- Experience with ServiceNow, CMDB platforms, or enterprise IT service management integrations.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar technologies.
- Familiarity with Python or another general-purpose programming language.
- Experience developing internal APIs, services, or automation platforms.
- Experience with event-driven automation.
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise server environments.
