[Remote] Salt Stack Infrastructure Automation Engineer // Remote within US
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. They are seeking a Salt Stack Infrastructure Automation Engineer to own infrastructure-as-code with Salt for AWS/Kubernetes, delivering secure and repeatable environments. The role involves modernizing a legacy application and implementing a secure automated delivery pipeline.
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.
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.
• 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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