Salt Stack Infrastructure Automation Engineer // Remote within US

Salt Stack Infrastructure Automation Engineer // Remote within US

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Summary: The Salt Stack Infrastructure Automation Engineer role involves rewriting a legacy COBOL mainframe application in Rust while implementing secure infrastructure automation using Salt for AWS and Kubernetes. The position requires expertise in DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and security compliance. The engineer will be responsible for maintaining infrastructure-as-code and delivering secure, repeatable environments. This is a remote position within the US, offering a contract duration of over 10 months.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Author/maintain Salt states, formulas, pillars, and Jinja templates for app, data, and platform layers.
  • Build GitOps-style pipelines (GitLab) for infra changes, secrets handling, and environment promotion (Dev UAT Prod).
  • Integrate with Kubernetes (e.g., salt-ssh or salt-kube), bootstrap nodes, and manage cluster add-ons.
  • Implement security baselines: CIS hardening, TLS, IAM roles/policies, key rotation, logging/monitoring hooks.
  • Support blue/green cutovers; create rollback/runbooks and SLO/SLA monitoring (logs, metrics, alerts).
  • Document runbooks, topology diagrams, and operations guides in Antora/AsciiDoc.

Key Skills:

  • 5+ years with SaltStack (states, pillars, orchestration, event/reactor), plus strong Jinja/YAML/TOML templating.
  • AWS production experience (IAM, VPC, EKS, EC2, RDS/S3, Parameter Store/Secrets Manager).
  • CI/CD for infra (GitLab CI or similar), artifact/version management, and change control.
  • Kubernetes operations (manifests/Helm/Kustomize, ingress, service meshes a plus).
  • Security/compliance mindset; experience implementing least-privilege and auditability.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Hello,

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Salt Stack Infrastructure Automation Engineer (5+ years)

Remote Within US

10+ months Contract

Scope/Background:

  • Rewrite the legacy COBOL mainframe EAP application in Rust; design with security-first patterns (authZ/authN, encryption).
  • Stand up DevOps/CI-CD in GitLab; implement automated test suites across SDLC and support UAT.
  • Deliver infrastructure automation with Salt (AWS/Kubernetes), including one-touch deployments and blue/green strategies; docs in Antora/AsciiDoc stored with code in GitLab

Project Overview: The project modernizes Clients' (Bs EAP by rewriting the COBOL mainframe application in Rust, while standing up a secure, automated delivery pipeline: GitLab hosts code, CI/CD, and versioned docs (AsciiDoc/Antora), and Salt drives auditable infrastructure and one-touch deployments across Dev, UAT, and Prod. Work starts with requirements workshops and business-rule indexing, proceeds through secure architecture/design, Rust development with automated test suites, and UAT, and culminates in production cutover with a stabilization (hypercare) window.

Role summary: Own infrastructure-as-code with Salt for AWS/Kubernetes; deliver secure, repeatable environments and blue/green release enablement.

Key responsibilities:

  • Author/maintain Salt states, formulas, pillars, and Jinja templates for app, data, and platform layers.
  • Build GitOps-style pipelines (GitLab) for infra changes, secrets handling, and environment promotion (Dev UAT Prod).
  • Integrate with Kubernetes (e.g., salt-ssh or salt-kube), bootstrap nodes, and manage cluster add-ons.
  • Implement security baselines: CIS hardening, TLS, IAM roles/policies, key rotation, logging/monitoring hooks.
  • Support blue/green cutovers; create rollback/runbooks and SLO/SLA monitoring (logs, metrics, alerts).
  • Document runbooks, topology diagrams, and operations guides in Antora/AsciiDoc.

Required qualifications:

  • 5+ years with SaltStack (states, pillars, orchestration, event/reactor), plus strong Jinja/YAML/TOML templating.
  • AWS production experience (IAM, VPC, EKS, EC2, RDS/S3, Parameter Store/Secrets Manager).
  • CI/CD for infra (GitLab CI or similar), artifact/version management, and change control.
  • Kubernetes operations (manifests/Helm/Kustomize, ingress, service meshes a plus).
  • Security/compliance mindset; experience implementing least-privilege and auditability.

Nice to have:

  • Experience extending Salt or writing custom modules; Python scripting for glue/ops.
  • Observability stacks (CloudWatch/PrometheGrafana/ELK/OpenTelemetry).
  • Environment provisioning lead time, change failure rate, deployment frequency, and recovery time after change.

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