7 KINGS CODE · 1 day ago
Automation Specialist // Overland Park, KS or Frisco, TX // PR Visa.-W2.
7 KINGS CODE is seeking an Automation Specialist to enhance their failover workflows and automation processes. The role involves building Ansible playbooks and GitLab CI/CD pipelines, onboarding applications, and designing observability solutions to ensure failover readiness.
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Responsibilities
Build Ansible playbooks and GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automated failover workflows, eventually migrating to AAP Platform as failover orchestration layer
Independently onboard applications into the failover framework—gather requirements, understand architecture, and implement with minimal handholding from app teams
Automate database failover and messaging systems
Integrate with CyberArk, HashiCorp Vault, and F5 load balancers
Proactively engage application owners and drive conversations to unblock delivery
Design and implement observability solutions—build monitoring dashboards, alerting, and health-check mechanisms to provide real-time visibility into failover readiness and execution
Recommend and establish best practices—evaluate current processes, identify gaps, and propose improvements for failover patterns, automation standards, and operational runbooks
Document everything—create clear, comprehensive technical documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and onboarding guides that enable team scalability and knowledge transfer
Build reusable automation frameworks—develop modular, maintainable automation components that can be extended across applications and environments
Qualification
Required
5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Automation
Ansible & GitLab CI/CD expertise
Python/Bash scripting; strong YAML skills
AWS and Kubernetes experience
Familiarity with secret management (CyberArk, Vault)
Experience using AI coding tools (Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate delivery
Strong documentation skills—ability to translate complex systems into clear, actionable guides
Preferred
F5 GTM/LTM and network failover experience
Chaos engineering background
ServiceNow automation experience
Telecom or large enterprise environment experience
Experience with observability platforms (Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, OTEL)
Track record of establishing automation standards and best practices in enterprise environments
Company
7 KINGS CODE
7 Kings Code provides talent management solutions to startups and enterprise companies through IT staffing and software solutions.
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