IAC Engineer

Our Client is seeking an experienced IAC Engineer for a project on behalf of their customer. This is a role where you will spend two days a month on onsite and the remainder of time remotely.

Key Responsibilities

• Automate the creation of golden OS images using Packer with pre-installed configurations, security hardening, and agents. Windows are our main target currently.
• Manage image lifecycle and deploy standardized images to platforms like VMware vSphere .
• Use Terraform and GitHub Actions to provision infrastructure across environments.
• Implement Continuous Configuration Automation (CCA) using Ansible and Terraform to maintain desired state and reduce drift.
• Automate software delivery for infrastructure components (e.g., antivirus, middleware).
• Automate integration with services like backup, monitoring, logging, antivirus, and CMDB .
• Ensure systems are operationally ready post-deployment.
• Integrate with monitoring platforms and define automation triggers.
• Enforce compliance with CIS benchmarks , encryption policies, and other security standards using policy-as-code tools.

Skills Required

IAC Tools

• Packer
• GitHub / GitHub Actions
• Terraform
• Ansible
• VMware vSphere
• CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault

Scripting Languages

• Python, Bash, Java, or PowerShell