Salt Stack Infrastructure Automation Engineer // Remote within US
Hello, Hope you are doing well. we have a Job opportunity with one of our Client, If Interested Please share your resume to Salt Stack Infrastructure Automation Engineer (5+ years) Remote Within US 10+ months Contract Scope/Background: • Rewrite the legacy COBOL mainframe EAP application in Rust; design with security-first patterns (authZ/authN, encryption). • Stand up DevOps/CI-CD in GitLab; implement automated test suites across SDLC and support UAT. • Deliver infrastructure automation with Salt (AWS/Kubernetes), including one-touch deployments and blue/green strategies; docs in Antora/AsciiDoc stored with code in GitLab Project Overview: The project modernizes Clients' (Bs EAP by rewriting the COBOL mainframe application in Rust, while standing up a secure, automated delivery pipeline: GitLab hosts code, CI/CD, and versioned docs (AsciiDoc/Antora), and Salt drives auditable infrastructure and one-touch deployments across Dev, UAT, and Prod. Work starts with requirements workshops and business-rule indexing, proceeds through secure architecture/design, Rust development with automated test suites, and UAT, and culminates in production cutover with a stabilization (hypercare) window. Role summary: Own infrastructure-as-code with Salt for AWS/Kubernetes; deliver secure, repeatable environments and blue/green release enablement. Key responsibilities: • Author/maintain Salt states, formulas, pillars, and Jinja templates for app, data, and platform layers. • Build GitOps-style pipelines (GitLab) for infra changes, secrets handling, and environment promotion (Dev UAT Prod). • Integrate with Kubernetes (e.g., salt-ssh or salt-kube), bootstrap nodes, and manage cluster add-ons. • Implement security baselines: CIS hardening, TLS, IAM roles/policies, key rotation, logging/monitoring hooks. • Support blue/green cutovers; create rollback/runbooks and SLO/SLA monitoring (logs, metrics, alerts). • Document runbooks, topology diagrams, and operations guides in Antora/AsciiDoc. Required qualifications: • 5+ years with SaltStack (states, pillars, orchestration, event/reactor), plus strong Jinja/YAML/TOML templating. • AWS production experience (IAM, VPC, EKS, EC2, RDS/S3, Parameter Store/Secrets Manager). • CI/CD for infra (GitLab CI or similar), artifact/version management, and change control. • Kubernetes operations (manifests/Helm/Kustomize, ingress, service meshes a plus). • Security/compliance mindset; experience implementing least-privilege and auditability. Nice to have: • Experience extending Salt or writing custom modules; Python scripting for glue/ops. • Observability stacks (CloudWatch/PrometheGrafana/ELK/OpenTelemetry). • Environment provisioning lead time, change failure rate, deployment frequency, and recovery time after change. Thanks & Regards Apply tot his job