Infrastructure Automation Specialist – Python, Ansible, F5 LTM/GTM & Network APIs

Preferred Software Skills

• Experience with additional programming or scripting languages.
• Hands-on experience deploying and configuring network infrastructure, including Cisco, Arista, or comparable platforms.
• Experience with the Infoblox suite of DNS and DHCP products.
• Knowledge of virtualized and containerized infrastructure.
• Understanding of software version control, deployment, build tools, and software development lifecycle practices.
• Experience with infrastructure testing, continuous integration, continuous delivery, or automated release tools.
• Recognized industry certifications from F5, Cisco, or other relevant technology vendors.

Equivalent tools and platforms may be considered where they provide comparable capabilities.

Overall Responsibilities

• Implement automation for certification and plant management using Python and Ansible.
• Automate repetitive infrastructure installation, configuration, provisioning, management, and validation tasks.
• Extend and integrate APIs to provide infrastructure-on-demand capabilities.
• Design, develop, test, document, and maintain automation workflows and reusable components.
• Perform and automate lab-based testing as part of new hardware and software certification.
• Configure, manage, integrate, and troubleshoot F5 LTM and GTM load balancers.
• Use TMSH, iControl, and iRules to support F5 configuration, automation, integration, and operational requirements.
• Apply knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, HTTP, SSL, and other networking concepts when designing and troubleshooting solutions.
• Work with distributed web applications and understand the infrastructure required to support their availability, performance, scalability, and connectivity.
• Use Linux command-line tools for infrastructure configuration, automation, testing, monitoring, and issue resolution.
• Communicate with internal clients and stakeholders to identify new business requirements.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into well-architected, secure, scalable, supportable, and maintainable infrastructure solutions.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, network, software, testing, security, and operations teams to deliver automation initiatives.
• Investigate failures, resolve defects, improve automation reliability, and document technical findings.
• Support infrastructure certification outcomes by ensuring that test activities are repeatable, traceable, and aligned with defined requirements.
• Evaluate new technologies and recommend improvements to infrastructure automation, testing, deployment, and service delivery.
• Consider sustainability by reducing manual rework, improving resource utilization, reusing automation components, and minimizing unnecessary infrastructure provisioning and test activity.
• Deliver automation solutions that meet agreed requirements for functionality, reliability, security, maintainability, and operational support.

Technical Skills (By Category)

Programming Languages

Essential

• Python for infrastructure automation, API integration, configuration management, testing, and operational tooling.
• Shell scripting or another scripting/programming language for infrastructure automation and command-line operations.
• Ability to write maintainable, reusable, testable, and well-documented automation code.
• Ability to troubleshoot scripts, automation workflows, API interactions, and infrastructure-related failures.

Preferred

• Experience with additional programming languages used for automation, infrastructure management, testing, or software development.
• Familiarity with structured data formats and API data exchange, including JSON or YAML.
• Experience developing reusable libraries, modules, or automation frameworks.

Databases/Data Management

Essential

• Understanding of configuration data, infrastructure inventory, service metadata, test results, and certification records.
• Ability to manage, validate, and document data used by automation workflows and infrastructure APIs.
• Experience working with structured configuration files and data exchanged through APIs.

Preferred

• Experience integrating automation with relational or non-relational databases.
• Familiarity with configuration databases, infrastructure inventories, DNS data, DHCP data, or asset-management systems.
• Experience maintaining data consistency, traceability, and auditability across infrastructure processes.

Cloud Technologies

Essential

• Understanding of infrastructure-on-demand concepts and automated provisioning.
• Ability to apply infrastructure automation principles in distributed or cloud-enabled environments.
• Understanding of scalability, availability, networking, configuration, and operational requirements for infrastructure services.

Preferred

• Knowledge of virtualized and containerized infrastructure.
• Experience automating cloud infrastructure or integrating infrastructure APIs with cloud services.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, or cloud-based testing environments.
• Awareness of resource-efficient infrastructure design and cloud cost considerations.

Frameworks and Libraries

Essential

• Experience with Ansible playbooks, roles, modules, variables, templates, inventories, and automation workflows.
• Experience with F5 TMSH, iControl, and iRules.
• Experience extending and integrating infrastructure APIs.
• Ability to build reusable automation components for infrastructure management and certification.

Preferred

• Familiarity with Python libraries for API integration, networking, testing, logging, or automation.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks and configuration-management tools.
• Exposure to libraries or platforms supporting virtualized, containerized, or cloud-based infrastructure.

Development Tools and Methodologies

Essential

• Experience automating infrastructure installation, configuration, management, and certification activities.
• Understanding of software version control, deployment, build tools, and software development lifecycle practices.
• Experience performing and automating lab-based testing for hardware and software certification.
• Ability to document automation processes, configuration requirements, test results, dependencies, and operational procedures.
• Experience troubleshooting automation failures, infrastructure issues, networking problems, and API errors.
• Ability to work with Linux-based command-line tools and operational processes.

Preferred

• Experience with Git or equivalent version-control systems.
• Familiarity with continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, build pipelines, and release-management tools.
• Experience with test automation frameworks, infrastructure validation, performance testing, or service monitoring.
• Familiarity with Agile or iterative delivery practices.

Security Protocols

Essential

• Strong understanding of SSL and its role in secure network communication.
• Awareness of authentication, authorization, access control, secure API integration, and protection of infrastructure credentials.
• Ability to apply secure configuration and operational practices when automating infrastructure.
• Understanding of security considerations for distributed web applications, load balancers, APIs, and Linux environments.

Preferred

• Experience with certificate management, encryption, secrets management, network security controls, or secure automation practices.
• Familiarity with security testing, vulnerability remediation, auditability, and infrastructure compliance requirements.
• Experience incorporating security validation into hardware, software, or infrastructure certification processes.

Experience Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure automation, network automation, systems engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or a related field.
• Experience automating repetitive tasks related to infrastructure installation, configuration, certification, or management using Ansible, Python, shell, or another scripting/programming language.
• Expertise with F5 LTM and GTM load-balancer configuration and APIs, including TMSH, iControl, and iRules.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts and protocols, including TCP/IP, BGP, HTTP, and SSL.
• Experience with distributed web applications and knowledge of their underlying infrastructure.
• Practical experience working with Linux-based command-line environments.
• Experience extending and integrating APIs to support infrastructure-on-demand services.
• Experience performing or automating lab-based testing for new hardware and software certification.
• Preferred experience with additional programming languages, network infrastructure, Infoblox DNS and DHCP products, virtualized infrastructure, containerized infrastructure, version control, deployment tools, build tools, and SDLC practices.
• Candidates may also qualify through equivalent combinations of network engineering, systems administration, DevOps, platform engineering, test automation, infrastructure development, or technical operations experience that demonstrate the required capabilities and outcomes.

Day-to-Day Activities

• Develop and maintain Python and Ansible automation for infrastructure certification, plant management, installation, configuration, provisioning, and infrastructure-on-demand services.
• Configure and troubleshoot F5 LTM and GTM environments, use TMSH, iControl, and iRules, and collaborate with network, infrastructure, software, testing, and operations teams.
• Perform and automate lab-based hardware and software certification tests, review results, investigate failures, and document technical findings and delivery status.
• Engage with internal clients and stakeholders to clarify requirements, recommend solution designs, prioritize work, and make technical decisions within the agreed architecture and governance boundaries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Networking, or a related field; equivalent relevant professional experience may be considered.
• Recognized industry certification from F5, Cisco, or another relevant technology vendor is preferred but not mandatory.
• Relevant training in Python, Ansible, Linux, networking, F5 technologies, API integration, automation, testing, cloud, virtualization, or containerization is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience delivering infrastructure automation, network automation, infrastructure certification, API integration, or lab-based testing solutions is required.
• Commitment to continuous professional development through technical training, hands-on learning, certification maintenance, knowledge sharing, and awareness of evolving infrastructure technologies.

Professional Competencies

• Apply structured problem-solving and technical analysis to diagnose automation failures, network issues, API errors, configuration defects, and certification risks.
• Collaborate effectively with infrastructure, network, software, testing, security, operations, and stakeholder teams to deliver shared outcomes.
• Communicate requirements, solution designs, technical risks, testing results, dependencies, and delivery updates clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adapt to new hardware, software, infrastructure platforms, networking technologies, automation tools, APIs, and evolving business requirements.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation coverage, infrastructure reliability, testing repeatability, provisioning speed, resource efficiency, and long-term maintainability.
• Manage multiple automation, certification, testing, support, and stakeholder priorities while maintaining technical accuracy, documentation quality, and agreed delivery timelines.

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