table border="0">| Area | Requirement |
|---|
| Aria Automation | Hands-on experience with production VMware Aria / vRealize Automation 8.x environments; Cloud Assembly, ABX or vRO |
| Terraform | Proficient with HCL, modules, state management; vSphere, AWS, and Proxmox providers |
| Ansible | Experience writing playbooks and roles for OS configuration, agent deployment, and migration tasks |
| AWS SSM | Hands-on with SSM Agent deployment, hybrid activations for on-premises targets, and IAM configuration |
| SentinelOne | Experience with agent deployment across Windows, Linux, and macOS; Management Console API |
| Proxmox | Familiarity with Proxmox VE administration, VM/template management, storage, and networking |
| VMware Migration | Experience exporting VMware VMs and converting to KVM/QEMU-compatible formats |
| Migration Tooling | Familiarity with virt-v2v, qemu-img, or equivalent VMware-to-KVM conversion tooling |
| macOS Automation | Experience automating agent deployment and configuration on Intel-based macOS |
| GitLab | Comfortable with GitLab repo management, branching, merge requests, and regular check-in discipline |
| GitLab CI | Proficient building .gitlab-ci.yml pipelines with multi-stage, multi-environment deployments |
| Artifactory | Familiarity with JFrog Artifactory for artifact storage and pipeline integration |
| Secret Management | Experience integrating with 1Password Vaults for secret retrieval in scripts and pipelines |
| Scripting | Proficient in Bash, Python, and/or PowerShell |
| Collaboration | Proactive communicator — comfortable asking questions, raising risks early, and working closely with a team leader and infrastructure team |
| Security Collaboration | Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with Security teams on exclusion processes and token governance |
Nice to Have.
Rough Milestones| M | Milestone |
|---|
| 1 | Environment access; review of existing Aria Automation setup and CI workflows; full VM inventory and VMware dependency assessment begins; initial Security team meeting; GitLab repo and Artifactory structure established |
| 2 | Aria Automation templates with SSM + SentinelOne registration working in non-prod for Windows and Linux; first Security review checkpoint; GitLab CI pipeline validating templates |
| 3 | macOS (Intel) provisioning integration complete; Terraform and Ansible equivalents with full GitLab CI pipeline promotion workflow |
| 4 | Exclusions process documented and approved by Security; all token handling via 1Password validated; artifacts managed through Artifactory |
| 5 | Proxmox capacity planning complete; Proxmox environment validated as migration target; migration script toolkit v1 complete; non-production migration runs executed and validated |
| 6 | Migration scripts hardened with error handling, rollback, and post-migration validation; production migration pipeline ready with change management gates |
| 7 | All documentation and runbooks delivered; Proxmox platform readiness report; migration runbook finalized; knowledge transfer completed |
Key Constraints.