What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Center/Cloud & Automation SME position at Purple Drive Technologies LLC?
Role: Data Center/Cloud & Automation SME
Location: Culver City, CA
Duration: 6 months
Experience Required: 10 & Above
Skills: Digital : Amazon Web Service(AWS) Cloud Computing
Primary Skills : Linux, AWS, Terraform & Ansible, Automation
Secondary Skills : Windows, Citrix, Nutanix and VMware
Detailed Responsibility**
Manage and support Linux servers including installation, patching, user management, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Design, provision, and maintain AWS infrastructure (EC2, Certificate Manager, Security Groups, VPC, IAM, S3, Load Balancers) ensuring security, availability, and cost efficiency.
Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to build, update, and manage AWS resources in a consistent and reusable manner.
Automate system configuration, deployments, and patching using Ansible playbooks and roles.
Code version control through Github.
Monitor systems and cloud resources, respond to incidents, and perform root cause analysis.
Follow security best practices, access controls, and compliance requirements across OS and cloud platforms.
Collaborate with application, network, and security teams to support deployments and changes.
Maintain documentation, SOPs, and continuously improve automation and operational efficiency.
Required Technical Skill Set** Linux Administration: Strong hands on experience with RHEL / Amazon Linux / Ubuntu, including user management, patching, troubleshooting, shell scripting, and performance monitoring.
AWS Cloud: Practical knowledge of core AWS services such as EC2, VPC, Subnets, Certificate Manager,IAM, S3, Load Balancers, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch, with security and cost optimization awareness.
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform): Experience in writing and managing Terraform modules, variables, and state files to provision and maintain AWS infrastructure.
Configuration Management (Ansible): Ability to create and manage Ansible playbooks and roles for OS configuration, automation, and deployment tasks.
Version Control: Working knowledge of Git for code versioning and collaboration.
Understanding of networking fundamentals
Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in Bash scripting and automation of repetitive operational tasks.
Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Experience in system and cloud monitoring, incident handling, and root cause analysis.
Security & Compliance: Understanding of access control, encryption, patch management, and secure configuration practices.
Good-to-Have-
Windows Adminitration, Citrix - storefront, Delivery controllers, netscaler, PAM, XenApp Administration.
Experience in Nutanix and VMware
CI/CD Tools: Exposure to Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar pipelines.
Containers & Orchestration: Basic knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
Advanced AWS Services: Familiarity with RDS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Route53, or EKS.
Monitoring & Logging Tools: Experience with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or CloudTrail.
Ansible AWX / Tower: Experience with Ansible Tower or AWX for centralized automation.
Terraform Advanced Usage: Exposure to multi account setups, workspaces, and complex module design.
Security Practices: Knowledge of vulnerability scanning, security audits, and compliance requirements.
ITIL / ITSM Awareness: Experience working with incident, problem, and change management processes.
Scripting Languages: Basic knowledge of Python for automation tasks.
Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Ability to create SOPs, runbooks, and technical documentation.
Responsibility of Automation & Configuration Management Engineer / Expectations from the Role
1 Manage and support Linux servers, including installation, patching, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
2 Provision, configure, and maintain AWS infrastructure ensuring availability, security, and scalability.
3 Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform for consistent cloud deployments.
4 Automate system configuration, deployments, and operational tasks using Ansible.
5 Monitor systems and cloud resources; handle incidents, changes, and service requests.
6 Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive actions
7 Enforce security best practices across OS and cloud environments.
8 Collaborate with cross functional teams to support application deployments and platform stability.
9 Maintain documentation, SOPs, and runbooks
10 Manage code/version control through GitHub
Continuously improve automation, reliability, and operational efficiency.