DevOps Automation Developer || 10+ Years experienced only

Position - DevOps Automation Development role

Location - New Jersey (2-3 Days from Office)

Duration - Full-time with QI

DevOps Development role involves providing configuration management, automation, and compliance solutions for hybrid multi-cloud and on-premises environments.

Core Responsibilities

• Chef & Ruby Development: Design, develop, and maintain Chef cookbooks, custom resources, and Ruby libraries for both application and platform workloads.

• Compliance Automation: Create and maintain InSpec profiles and policy-driven automation to ensure security and compliance standards are met.

• CI/CD Pipeline Integration: Integrate automated cookbook testing and promotion into Jenkins pipelines.

• Infrastructure & Platform Support: Support Linux and Windows SCM client health and develop related remediation automation.

• Testing & Quality Assurance: Perform unit, BDD, and integration testing for all delivered cookbooks and participate in code reviews and troubleshooting.

• Documentation & Training: Produce architecture diagrams, runbooks, deployment instructions, and user guides, and lead knowledge transfer sessions for operations teams.

Technical Skills Required

• Configuration Management: Expert-level Chef development (Cookbooks, Custom Resources).

• Programming/Scripting: Proficient in Ruby for infrastructure-as-code. API design and development

• Security & Compliance: InSpec profile development and security posture management.

• Tools: Jenkins for CI/CD, JIRA for sprint management, and SCM (Software Configuration Management) tools for Windows and Linux.

• Cloud/Hybrid Infrastructure: Experience with multi-cloud (AWS, Azure) and on-premises compute instances.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years engineering experience with 4+ years in DevOps/SRE/automation roles (senior level).

• Strong Linux administration (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) and package management (rpm/yum, dpkg/apt).

• Hands-on experience with Ansible (preferred) or Chef/Puppet and with writing idempotent automation.

• Proficient in Jenkins pipeline development (Jenkinsfile, shared libraries) and CI/CD concepts.

• Experience with artifact stores (Artifactory/Nexus) and secure artifact retrieval practices.

• Scripting: Python and Bash; familiarity with shell tooling and unit-testable scripts.

• Experience with secrets management (HashiCorp Vault, cloud KMS) and secure credential usage in pipelines.

• Good knowledge of networking, SSH, firewalls, and access controls; strong documentation skills.

• Experience working in regulated/compliant environments is strongly preferred.

Preferred

• Direct experience integrating with internal enterprise repos or PMUL/Cybersphere-like platforms.

• Familiarity with signing artifacts (GPG), checksum verification, and binary provenance.

• Terraform or cloud IaC experience; container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes) a plus.

• Experience with ServiceNow/ITSM integration and change-control workflows.