RQ00217 Cloud Application Specialist Senior

RQ00217 - Cloud Application Specialist - Senior

6-month contract (129 business days) - possible extension

Up to 3 days in office 2 days remote (at the HMs discretion) -John and Front St

Must Haves:

• 5 years - Strong hands-on experience with HCP and Terraform.
• 5 years - Advanced experience with Ansible including playbooks roles inventories and automation workflows.
• 5 years - experience managing GitHub repositories and enterprise source-control practices.
• 5 years - Experience with Infrastructure as Code CI/CD API integration secrets management and enterprise security controls.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience working in enterprise cloud environments; Microsoft Azure experience is preferred.

Position Summary

Seeking an experienced contractor to migrate existing GitHub-based automation workflows to HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) and integrate HCP with Ansible. The goal is to establish a unified automation platform for infrastructure deployment and Day 2 operations and complete our integration with ServiceNow for one-click service requests and operational automation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess existing GitHub repositories GitHub Actions workflows and automation pipelines.
• Develop and execute the migration strategy from GitHub-based automation to HCP.
• Design and implement HCP and Ansible integrations for infrastructure provisioning deployment and Day 2 operations.
• Maintain GitHub repositories including branching strategies pull requests access controls reusable workflows and version management.
• Build and optimize GitHub Actions workflows for testing validation security scanning and automation.
• Develop reusable Terraform and Ansible modules playbooks templates and workflows.
• Implement security governance approval and audit requirements across the automation platform.
• Support testing troubleshooting documentation and production readiness.
• Provide knowledge transfer and operational handover to internal teams.
• Optionally integrate ServiceNow with HCP and Ansible to enable approved one-click deployments and Day 2 operational requests.

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Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.

INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $90.37/hr - $108.44/hr Inc.

T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $72.29/hr - $86.75/hr T4

Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.

INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $90.37/hr - $108.44/hr Inc.

T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $72.29/hr - $86.75/hr T4