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Senior R&S Engineer

World Wide Technology

Posted 1 week ago

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Charlotte, NC
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Job Description

**Key Responsibilities include:**

- Designing and developing scalable, reusable Ansible automation frameworks for VCF environments (Day 0/1/2 operations)

- Automating and managing the VMware Cloud Foundation stack: vSphere, NSX, Operations & Aria Operations for Logs, VCF Automation & Orchestrator, NSX Advanced Security (vDefend), Avi Load Balancer, and HCX

- Developing API-driven automation using Python (Requests/Django) to integrate with VMware APIs and enterprise systems such as CMDB, IPAM/DDI, and ITSM platforms like ServiceNow

- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation (Git-based workflows, Ansible Tower / AAP)

- Implementing infrastructure as code (IaC) standards, including versioning, testing, and modular design

- Ensuring automation solutions meet enterprise security and compliance requirements, including RBAC, secrets management, auditability, and logging

- Troubleshooting complex infrastructure and automation issues across the stack

- Optimizing system performance, scalability, and operational efficiency

- Producing high-quality technical documentation, runbooks, and reusable patterns

**Required Qualifications:**

- 5+ years of hands-on experience in Python development for infrastructure automation

- Deep expertise in Ansible (playbooks, roles, collections, Tower/AAP)

- Strong experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 9.x or 5.x) and its APIs

- Proven experience building API integrations with enterprise platforms (e.g., ServiceNow, CMDB, DDI/IPAM)

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows

- Strong understanding of REST APIs, JSON data modeling, Linux systems and scripting, networking (L2/L3, routing, firewalling), and security best practices

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience in financial services or regulated environments

- Familiarity with SDDC Manager and lifecycle manager APIs

- Experience with observability platforms and telemetry integration

- Knowledge of GitOps or event-driven automation models

- Exposure to container platforms (Kubernetes) is a plus
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