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.

AI Disclaimer

Source Code may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in certain aspects of its recruiting and business operations.

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