Cloud Automation Engineer

Automation Engineer with strong experience in Ansible, HashiCorp Packer, and Google Cloud Compute Engine to design, build, and maintain automated machine image and VM provisioning solutions for both Windows and Linux environments.

Key Responsibilities:
Infrastructure Automation:

• Design and implement automated VM image build pipelines using HashiCorp Packer for Google Cloud Compute Engine.

• Develop reusable golden images for Windows Server and Linux workloads.

• Automate VM configuration, software installation, patching, and baseline hardening using Ansible.

• Build standardized and repeatable provisioning patterns for Compute Engine instances across multiple environments.

Google Cloud Engineering:

• Manage and optimize Google Cloud Compute Engine instances, instance templates, managed instance groups, and related services.

• Implement best practices for VM image lifecycle management in GCP.

• Integrate image creation and provisioning workflows with GCP networking, IAM, service accounts, and storage services.

• Support deployment patterns for both standalone and scalable Compute Engine-based workloads.

Windows and Linux Administration:

• Automate configuration of Windows and Linux virtual machines using Ansible playbooks and roles.

• Build and maintain OS-specific provisioning logic for: Windows Server, RHEL / CentOS / Rocky / Ubuntu or similar Linux distributions

• Manage system configuration, domain join, local user/group policies, package installation, agent deployment, and OS baseline settings.

• Support patching, security hardening, and operational readiness of VM builds.

CI/CD and DevOps Integration:

• Integrate Packer and Ansible workflows into CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar platforms.

• Maintain version-controlled infrastructure and image build code in Git repositories.

• Implement automated testing and validation of machine images before release.

• Promote immutable infrastructure and image versioning practices.

Security and Governance:

• Apply secure baseline configurations and OS hardening controls to Windows and Linux images.

• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, vulnerability remediation, and audit requirements.
  

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in cloud infrastructure automation, system engineering, or DevOps roles.

• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible for configuration management and provisioning.

• Strong hands-on experience with HashiCorp Packer for machine image creation.

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, especially: Compute Engine , IAM / service accounts, VPC networking fundamentals , Cloud Storage

• Experience administering and automating both: Windows Server, Linux operating systems

• Strong scripting experience with one or more of the following: Bash, PowerShell, Python

• Understanding of infrastructure-as-code, immutable images, and standardized build patterns.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Terraform for GCP infrastructure provisioning.

• Experience creating enterprise golden images and image promotion pipelines.

• Familiarity with security hardening frameworks and vulnerability remediation processes.

• Experience with Active Directory integration, Windows configuration automation, and Linux hardening.
  

Technical Skills:

• Automation/Provisioning: Ansible, Packer

• Cloud Platform: Google Cloud Platform, Compute Engine

• Operating Systems: Windows Server, Linux

• Scripting: PowerShell, Bash, Python

• DevOps Tools: Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
  
  

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $41.61/hour - $65.01/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.

Salary : $42 - $65