Associate Principal Engineer, Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Job description

• Total experience: 9+ years. • Strong experience in Virtualization, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Automation, or Systems Engineering. • Must-have expertise in Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, or KVM-based platforms (OpenStack, Proxmox, oVirt, libvirt). • Strong experience designing and implementing hypervisor automation frameworks for provisioning and managing hosts and virtual machines at scale. • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using declarative and idempotent automation practices. • Experience working with hypervisor-native APIs and automation tools such as vSphere API, PowerCLI, libvirt APIs, or equivalent. • Strong experience managing large-scale virtualization environments (hundreds to thousands of hosts). • Hands-on experience with bare-metal provisioning using PXE/iPXE, Kickstart, Autoinstall, or similar technologies. • Strong knowledge of BMC automation using Redfish APIs, iLO, iDRAC, or equivalent server management technologies. • Experience automating virtual networking, including vSwitches, Distributed Switches, Linux Bridge, Open vSwitch (OVS), VLANs, and VXLAN. • Experience with storage automation involving Datastores, LVM, ZFS, Ceph, or similar storage platforms. • Good understanding of Git-based Infrastructure as Code workflows, state management, modules, drift detection, and reconciliation. • Experience automating VM lifecycle management, including provisioning, cloning, snapshots, migration, image management, and template-based deployments. • Strong scripting/programming skills using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Go for infrastructure automation. • Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, architectural design, communication, and stakeholder management skills. RESPONSIBILITIES: • Design, implement, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for provisioning and managing hypervisor hosts and virtual machines from bare-metal deployment through lifecycle management. • Build and enhance Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to automate hypervisor configuration, VM provisioning, networking, and storage management. • Develop automation leveraging hypervisor-native APIs (vSphere, PowerCLI, libvirt, OpenStack, Proxmox, etc.) to manage infrastructure at scale. • Automate bare-metal server provisioning using PXE/iPXE, Kickstart, Autoinstall, and BMC technologies such as Redfish, iLO, and iDRAC. • Implement and manage virtual networking automation, including vSwitches, Distributed Switches, Linux Bridge, Open vSwitch (OVS), VLANs, and VXLAN. • Automate storage provisioning and lifecycle management for Datastores, LVM, ZFS, Ceph, and related storage platforms. • Design and implement Git-based Infrastructure as Code workflows, ensuring version control, drift detection, testing, and reconciliation before production changes. • Manage virtual machine lifecycle operations, including template creation, cloning, snapshots, migration, image management, and resource optimization. • Troubleshoot infrastructure, virtualization, networking, and automation issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive improvements. • Collaborate with platform engineering, infrastructure, networking, and operations teams to deliver highly available, secure, and scalable virtualization platforms. • Contribute to architecture decisions, automation strategy, and platform modernization initiatives for enterprise virtualization environments. • Drive continuous improvements in infrastructure automation, operational efficiency, platform reliability, and engineering best practices. Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field 👋🏼 We're Nagarro. We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (18500+ experts across 40 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We're looking for great new colleagues. That's where you come in!