Ansible Automation Engineer

About The Role

Our Greater Philadelphia area client is seeking an Ansible Automation Engineer to join their team in a contract-to-hire capacity. This individual will lead infrastructure automation initiatives across Linux and cloud environments, helping reduce manual operational work through scalable, repeatable automation solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automation solutions using Ansible and Terraform
• Build scalable automation frameworks for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployments
• Automate processes across Linux (Red Hat/OpenShift), cloud, and infrastructure platforms
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, DevOps, and Engineering teams to identify and implement automation opportunities
• Troubleshoot and optimize existing automation workflows, playbooks, and pipelines
• Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation and automation standards
• Support enterprise infrastructure modernization initiatives in a hybrid cloud environment

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible (AAP, playbooks, roles, modules, automation workflows)
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Linux Administration Experience, Including Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenShift
• Supporting Cloud Platforms Azure AWS Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Scripting Experience With YAML Python
• Supporting infrastructure automation, configuration management, and deployment automation
• Strong documentation and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently in a highly technical, non-customer-facing environment

Bonus Skills

• Windows Server administration experience
• PowerShell scripting
• Perl scripting

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering. Preferred: Master's in Computer Science, Master's in Information Technology, Master's in Engineering, MBA (Technology Management).

Industry Experience

Healthcare / Health Insurance Cloud Infrastructure Enterprise IT Hybrid Cloud Environments