Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Engineer (L3)

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement Terraform configurations for infrastructure provisioning across AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments.

• Build modular Terraform modules, state management (remote backends like S3/Terraform Cloud), and workspaces for environment isolation.

• Integrate Terraform with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) for automated deployments and drift detection.

• Establish governance with policy-as-code (OPA, Sentinel) and secure state handling.

• Collaborate with DevOps and security teams to define IaC standards, including tagging, naming conventions, and compliance checks.

• Perform infrastructure drift detection, remediation, and migration of existing resources to Terraform.

• Document Terraform workflows, create runbooks, and train teams on best practices.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Minimum 5 years in infrastructure automation, with 3+ years hands-on Terraform experience.

• Expertise in Terraform HCL, providers (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes), modules, and advanced features (for_each, dynamic blocks).

• Strong GitOps practices, CI/CD integration, and remote state management.

• Proficiency in Python/Bash for Terraform wrappers, data sources, and provisioners.

• Experience with multi-cloud environments and container orchestration (EKS, AKS).

• Familiarity with security scanning (Checkov, tfsec) and drift detection tools.

Desirable Skills:

• Integration experience with Ansible AAP for configuration management post-provisioning.

• Knowledge of Datadog for monitoring Terraform-managed infrastructure.

• Terraform Cloud/Enterprise or OpenTofu experience.

• Pulumi or CDK exposure as complementary IaC tools.