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Position Title: Automation Engineer • Location: Hyderabad About the Job   Role Overview The Automation Engineer builds the automation that removes manual, repetitive work from the running of enterprise infrastructure and platform services. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on operational automation: provisioning, configuration, patching, routine operational tasks, and automated remediation. Working within an established automation practice and alongside senior engineers, the Automation Engineer takes defined automation requirements and delivers reliable, well-tested, reusable automation. The measure of the work is straightforward: fewer manual steps, fewer tickets, and fewer repeat interventions by human operators. The role complements the DevOps Platform Engineer, who builds the CI/CD and developer tooling platform. This role concentrates on automating infrastructure and operational activity across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and the on-premise estate.      What you will be doing: Infrastructure and Operations Automation • Build and maintain automation that provisions, configures, and decommissions infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments. • Automate routine operational tasks including patching, certificate renewal, backup verification, log rotation, account administration, and service restarts. • Convert manual runbooks into tested, repeatable, parameterized automation. • Reduce ticket-based provisioning by delivering self-service automation that colleagues can run safely themselves. Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code • Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections, executed through Ansible Automation Platform. • Build and maintain Terraform configurations and modules for repeatable infrastructure provisioning. • Keep environments consistent by detecting and correcting configuration drift. Event-Driven and Self-Healing Operations • Build event-driven automation that responds to monitoring alerts and platform events without human intervention. • Implement auto-remediation for known, well-understood failure conditions using Event-Driven Ansible and equivalent tooling. • Work with observability data from Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk to identify candidates for automation. Technical Craft and Engineering Practices • Write clear, tested, peer-reviewed automation code in Python, PowerShell, and Bash. • Manage all automation in Git, following the team's branching, review, and release practices. • Handle credentials and secrets through approved services such as HashiCorp Vault and CyberArk, never in code or configuration. • Use AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code to accelerate development, testing, and documentation, applying appropriate review and technical judgement. • Document what each automation does, how to run it, and how it fails. Collaboration and Ways of Working • Work within an agile team with a shared backlog and defined customers. • Take direction and technical guidance from senior engineers, and actively seek feedback and code review. • Partner with infrastructure, cloud, and operations colleagues to understand the manual work worth automating. • Contribute to incident response and follow-up actions where automation forms part of the remedy. About You: Required • Demonstrated capability in infrastructure, operations, or automation engineering, typically gained across two to four years of professional experience. • Practical scripting ability in at least one of Python, PowerShell, or Bash. • Hands-on experience with configuration management or automation tooling, ideally Ansible. • Working knowledge of Linux or Windows server administration. • Familiarity with at leas

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