Ansible Engineer

About the role

The successful candidate will be part of a dynamic team focused on improving infrastructure reliability, deployment speed, scalability, and operational efficiency through automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, modules, and automation workflows.
• Automate server provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, patching, and infrastructure operations.
• Develop reusable and scalable Ansible roles and collections following automation best practices.
• Manage and support Ansible Tower/AWX/Automation Controller environments.
• Integrate Ansible automation with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools.
• Work closely with DevOps, Cloud, Infrastructure, Security, and Application teams.
• Automate deployments across Linux and Windows environments.
• Develop automation for AWS, Azure, or GCP infrastructure.
• Integrate Ansible with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Terraform, and ServiceNow.
• Maintain source-controlled automation code using Git.
• Troubleshoot failed playbooks, deployment issues, configuration problems, and infrastructure incidents.
• Implement automation standards, version control, testing, documentation, and code reviews.
• Manage secrets securely using Ansible Vault and enterprise secrets-management solutions.
• Optimize existing automation to improve execution time, reliability, and maintainability.
• Participate in production support, incident management, and root-cause analysis.
• Create technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Identify repetitive manual processes and convert them into automated workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Automation, Configuration Management, or Systems Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible.
• Advanced knowledge of Ansible Playbooks, Roles, Variables, Templates, Handlers, Inventory, Facts, and Modules.
• Experience with Ansible Tower, AWX, or Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration experience.
• Experience with Shell/Bash scripting and preferably Python.
• Strong understanding of YAML and JSON.
• Hands-on experience with Git and Git-based workflows.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of networking, DNS, TCP/IP, SSH, certificates, and system administration.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience integrating Ansible with ServiceNow.
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging platforms such as Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Experience with security automation and compliance automation.
• Python scripting and automation experience.
• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Full-time employment
• Opportunities to work with modern DevOps and cloud technologies
• Collaborative engineering environment
• Career growth and professional development opportunities

How to Apply

If you have strong experience with Ansible automation, Linux, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps, we'd like to hear from you. Please send your updated resume along with your location, work authorization, availability, and contact information.