Infrastructure Automation Specialist (Python, Ansible, F5)

About the role

Synechron is looking for an Infrastructure Automation Engineer in Bengaluru to implement and maintain automation solutions for infrastructure certification, plant management and infrastructure-on-demand services. The engineer works with internal clients and stakeholders to understand business needs and design well-architected solutions that improve provisioning, certification efficiency, operational consistency, deployment speed and service reliability.

Key responsibilities

• Implement automation for certification and plant management using Python and Ansible.
• Automate repetitive 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 for new hardware and software certification.
• Configure, manage, integrate and troubleshoot F5 LTM and GTM load balancers, using TMSH, iControl and iRules.
• Apply TCP/IP, BGP, HTTP, SSL and other networking knowledge when designing and troubleshooting solutions.
• Work with distributed web applications and use Linux command-line tools for configuration, automation, testing and monitoring.
• Communicate with stakeholders, translate requirements into secure, scalable solutions and collaborate with infrastructure, network, software, testing, security and operations teams.
• Investigate failures, resolve defects, improve automation reliability and document findings.
• Evaluate new technologies and recommend improvements; consider sustainability by reducing manual rework and reusing automation components.

Required profile

• Hands-on experience automating infrastructure installation, configuration, management, certification and testing with Python.
• Practical experience developing and maintaining Ansible playbooks, roles and automation workflows.
• Experience using shell or other scripting languages to automate infrastructure tasks.
• Expertise in F5 LTM and GTM configuration, administration, troubleshooting and API integration.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, BGP, HTTP, SSL and networking concepts.
• Comfort working in Linux environments and experience automating lab-based testing.
• Ability to work with the Python, Ansible, Linux, F5, networking, API and testing tool versions used on the assigned project, assessing compatibility and upgrades.

Preferred skills

• Additional programming or scripting languages, and experience with Cisco, Arista or similar platforms.
• Infoblox DNS and DHCP, virtualized and containerized infrastructure, and infrastructure-as-code.
• CI/CD, automated release tools, version control and vendor certifications (F5, Cisco).