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Tech giants & unicorns, transformative projects, emerging technologies and limitless opportunities - these are a few words that describe an average day for us. Building cross-functional engineering teams that take ownership and crave more means we’re always on the lookout for talented people who bring passion and creativity to every project. Our culture embraces openness, acts with respect, shows grit & guts and combines employment with enjoyment.\n Project - the aim you’ll have\nWe are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer to help build an automation practice for a leading IT infrastructure provider in the Netherlands.\nAutomation is already being done, but it has grown in several directions at once - different approaches, different standards and different repository layouts running in parallel. A large part of this role is bringing that together into one practice the whole team works with.\nYou will join a 12+ person Polish engineering team responsible for maintaining the client's Linux and Windows estate and for delivering transformation projects on it. The environment carries a significant legacy footprint, built up over years of operations. At the same time we are building a completely new platform based on OpenStack, so the automation you create will cover both: keeping the existing estate running, and making sure the new platform is automated from day one rather than years later.\nYou will also have a software development team as a help, so when something needs to be properly engineered rather than scripted around, you will not be solving it alone.\nYour first deliverable is continuous patching across Linux and Windows - moving the client from scheduled manual patching cycles to an automated, continuously running process. From there the practice expands into deployment automation, configuration management and process automation across the estate.\nRole - how you’ll contribute\nWriting Ansible automation - playbooks, roles, modules and collections - this is the core, day-to-day work of the role\nHelp shape the automation practice: standards, repository structure and code review process, worked out together with the team\nPatch management automation\nDeployment automation\nConfiguration management\nSystems and process automation\nProject-driven infrastructure transformations - bring automation into the transformation projects the team delivers, so that what is built new is automated from the start\nSupport, configure and manage the automation platform\nAutomation-related code review and maintenance across the team\nCI/CD configuration and management for automation code\nDefine and maintain the inventory and source of truth the automation runs against\nIntroduce testing for automation code, so changes can be released to a production estate with confidence\nWork with engineers maintaining the estate to identify what should be automated next, and in what order\nShare knowledge with the team so the practice is something everyone can work with\nProduce and maintain the technical documentation that makes the practice usable by others\n Expectations - 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