Execute the high-volume discovery, rationalization, conversion, remediation and validation of Chef automation assets into Ansible.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze existing Chef cookbooks, recipes, attributes, templates and dependencies.
- Classify assets for migrate / rationalize / consolidate / retire.
- Convert eligible Chef automation into standardized Ansible assets.
- Use approved AI-assisted conversion capabilities where applicable.
- Perform manual remediation of converted code.
- Build reusable Ansible modules, roles and collections where appropriate.
- Migrate server provisioning, OS hardening, security/observability agents and infrastructure configuration.
- Execute unit and functional validation.
- Document migration exceptions and remediation requirements.
- Contribute migration throughput, conversion coverage, rework and quality metrics.
- Support migration waves through production validation.
Required Skills
- Hands-on Chef and Ansible experience is highly desirable for this role.
- Chef Cookbook / Recipe concepts and Ruby.
- Ansible/YAML.
- Python, PowerShell and/or Bash.
- Linux/Windows administration.
- Git and CI/CD.
- Infrastructure automation and configuration management.
- Robust troubleshooting and code-analysis skills.