About Gruve
Gruve is an innovative software services startup dedicated to transforming enterprises to AI powerhouses. We specialize in cybersecurity, customer experience, cloud infrastructure, and advanced technologies such as Large Language Models (LLMs). Our mission is to assist our customers in their business strategies utilizing their data to make more intelligent decisions. As a well-funded early-stage startup, Gruve offers a energetic environment with strong customer and partner networks.
Position Summary
Platform Automation Engineer responsible for automating the configuration, deployment, and validation of Cisco ISE across Gruve's multi-tenant ISE-as-a-Service (ISEaaS) platform, with 5+ years of experience in infrastructure automation. Owns the Ansible codebase, dynamic inventory, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, and the automated validation suite that gates every customer onboarding. This role sits at the intersection of automation and network security:
the successful candidate will develop working Cisco ISE knowledge as a secondary skill in order to automate the platform meaningfully rather than generically. Working knowledge of AWS and Terraform.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain dynamic inventory integration with AWS (amazon.aws.aws_ec2 plugin) driven by resource tags.
- Automate Cisco ISE configuration through ERS / OpenAPI interfaces and CLI where API coverage is incomplete.
- Automate ISE node bootstrap, deployment formation, persona assignment, certificate operations, logging targets, SNMP configuration, and backup scheduling.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines covering linting, validation, plan/approval gates, automated apply, and post-change verification.
- Build and own the automated validation suite used as the onboarding acceptance gate, including health checks, replication status, and test authentication.
- Implement secure secrets management using AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, or ansible-vault; ensure no credentials ar
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