Ansible Engineer

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Ansible Engineer to join our infrastructure and automation team. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Ansible, Ansible Tower/AWX, Linux, automation, configuration management, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure. The Ansible Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting automation solutions that improve infrastructure reliability, deployment speed, scalability, and operational efficiency.

The ideal candidate is a strong automation-focused engineer who can independently develop and troubleshoot enterprise-scale Ansible solutions. You should be comfortable working in production environments, collaborating with multiple technical teams, and converting manual infrastructure processes into reliable automated workflows.

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.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
• Relevant technical certifications are a plus.

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.

Benefits

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