Puppet Engineer

Role: Puppet Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, CA/Bentonville, AR (2-3 days per week)

Duration: Long Term Contract

Top Skills - Must Haves

• puppet
• opensource
• enterprise
• ruby
• ruby on rails
• PowerShell scripting
• python
• Cloud
• Cloud computing
• ci/cd

Top Skills' Details

1. Puppet Experience: need Opensource Puppet & Puppet Enterprise experience (enterprise scale). Currently migrating from 7 to 8.

2. Need advanced programming skills. Ruby --> for re-factoring/administration of Puppet Software. PowerShell/Python --> integration and automation purposes.

3. Strong experience in CI/CD w/ some popular tool like Github (Gitactions) or Jenkins w/ Gitlab or azureDevops w/ Gitlab..etc. Preferred is Gitactions.

Secondary Skills - Nice to Haves

• azure
• gcp
• windows

Job Description

Puppet Experience: need Opensource Puppet & Puppet Enterprise experience (enterprise scale)

Role scope: Puppet Admin/Engineer.

Day to day maintenance of puppets infrastructure include break/fix troubleshooting support of Overall infrastructure will NOT be creating modules (called Manifests in Puppets)

Need advanced programming skills

Ruby --> for re-factoring/administration of Puppet Software

PowerShell/Python --> integration and automation purposes

Puppet is generally used in HEAVY linux environment but is just as capable in Windows.

The ideal candidate needs to know how to work with Windows agents in addition to Linux. (does not need to be hands to keys in windows adminsitration)

Devops as it relates to DevOps, Walmart is siloed so the will not have access to the full DevOps environment BUT needs to have strong experience in Ci/CD w/ some popular tool like Github (Gitactions) or Jenkins w/ Gitlab or azureDevops w/ Gitlab..etc

Preferred: Gitactions for CI/CD

Additional Skills & Qualifications

This person will assist with day to day work, but could also participate in project work. One major project currently in flight is the migration from puppet 7 to 8.