Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Position: DevOps Engineer Terraform & Ansible
Location: San Jose, CA
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description
About the Role
- We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer to join our team in building and maintaining scalable infrastructure solutions.
- This is not a typical Linux SysAdmin role - we need someone with engineering depth who can design, deploy, and maintain automation workflows across our cloud and on-prem environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Terraform modules and infrastructure automation pipelines.
- Develop Ansible playbooks and roles, deploy and maintain automation across production and non-production environments.
- Manage, troubleshoot, and support RHEL Linux systems; SUSE/AIX experience is a plus.
- Integrate infrastructure components using Python scripting for automation and process efficiency.
- Collaborate with the development team to deploy and manage applications in OpenShift or virtualized environments.
- Participate in configuration management, infrastructure standardization, and operational improvements.
- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues; support maintenance and minor OS-level tasks.
Must-Have Skills
- Terraform hands-on development and deployment experience.
- Ansible deep experience building roles and automation playbooks.
- RHEL Linux experience supporting and troubleshooting production environments.
- Python basic to moderate scripting experience for automation.
- Proven ability to work in an engineering-focused, DevOps-oriented environment.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, growth-oriented mindset.
- Basic UNIX skills -Somebody that can jump into the OS and do support/maintenance -not going to be the major part of this role.
- Client primarily deal with RHEL
- Exposure to SUSE or AIX environments.
- Strong Terraform + Ansible experience, some OpenShift/VM knowledge, and the ability to integrate all components into a working system.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with hybrid cloud or virtualized infrastructure.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure integration tools.
Production Service Engineer
The Challenge
The Challenge
- Seeking as UNIX Administrator with excellent technical, process and automation skills to be part of High-Performance Cloud Operations Team.
- As an Infrastructure Administrator, this person is responsible for the daily administration of Linux and Unix servers in a business application environment.
- This includes general system administration tasks, software and hardware support, system configuration, system monitoring.
- This person must have excellent Linux/Unix administration experience, with customer relation skills.
- Candidate should be able to work with business application administrators, helping troubleshoot their applications and guide them with standard methodologies.
- Candidate must be able to express thoughts clearly and capable of working in a team or as a sole contributor. Individual should be self-motivated with very good communication skills.
- Main point responsible for the overall operability, resiliency, performance, and capacity of owned production services.
What you'll do
- System Administration - Would be responsible for the day-to-day administration of all Linux based servers.
- This includes monitoring the trouble ticket queue, system troubleshooting, hardware and software system changes, scripting, patching, system performance monitoring, system sizing, system integration, upgrade implementation, and hardware diagnostics.
- Application support Would work with application administrators to help fix and fine-tune applications and also if required guide application administrators in standard processes related to using the underlying UNIX infrastructure.
- Documentation Maintain all system documentation.
What you need to succeed
- Unix/Linux System Administration: In-depth experience with Unix/Linux servers (especially Suse, AIX, RHEL, CentOS) for installation, configuration, patching, and troubleshooting.
- Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python) and automation tools (Ansible, etc.) to streamline deployments and manage configurations.
- Demonstrable ability to perform UNIX builds,
- Understanding of RedHat Satellite, IBM NIM, or SUSE Manager for patch management.
- Networking Knowledge: Strong grasp of networking (TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, etc.) and system connectivity for effective troubleshooting in distributed environments.
- Working knowledge of Virtual machine management (VmWare, OpenShift) TCP/IP functionality, networking, Remote administration, cloning, migration, etc.
- Security Best Practices: Expertise in system security user access controls, OS hardening, patch management, and compliance.
- Soft Skills: Strong communication, teamwork, and problem-solving skills to collaborate across teams and resolve complex issues efficiently.
- Operational experience with Ansible and Terraform are beneficial.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | San Jose, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $58.20 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Access Controlunmatched
- Ansibleunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Bash Scriptingunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Business Solutionsunmatched
- CentOSunmatched
- Cloningunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Securityunmatched
- Configuration Managementunmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- DNS (Domain Name System)unmatched
- DevOpsunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Hardware Administrationunmatched
- Hardware Upgradesunmatched
- Home Automationunmatched
- Hybrid Cloudunmatched
- IBM AIX Operating Systemunmatched
- IBM Product Familyunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Linux Administrationunmatched
- Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Network Administration/Managementunmatched
- Operating Systemsunmatched
- Operational Improvementunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Production Supportunmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Red Hat Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- SSH (Secure Shell)unmatched
- Scalable System Developmentunmatched
- Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
- Software Administrationunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Software Patchesunmatched
- SuSE Linuxunmatched
- System Integration (SI)unmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)unmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- Trouble Ticketsunmatched
- Unix Operating Systemsunmatched
- Unix System Administrationunmatched
- VMWareunmatched
- Virtual Machine (VM)unmatched
- Virtualizationunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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