Ansible Engineer

About the role

We are looking for Ansible Engineer designs, develops, and maintains automation solutions using Ansible/Ansible Automation Platform to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and operational tasks.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Ansible Playbooks, Roles, Collections, and Modules.
• Automate server provisioning, configuration, patching, and application deployments.
• Manage Linux and Windows environments using Ansible.
• Build reusable and scalable automation workflows.
• Integrate Ansible with CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Work with networking devices such as Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls.
• Integrate Ansible with REST APIs and external systems.
• Manage credentials and secrets securely using Ansible Vault.
• Troubleshoot failed playbooks and automation jobs.
• Implement idempotent and error-tolerant automation.
• Maintain automation code using Git and follow code-review practices.
• Monitor automation jobs and provide production support.
• Document automation procedures and operational processes.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible.
• YAML and Jinja2 templating.
• Linux/Unix administration.
• Shell scripting.
• Python scripting.
• Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket.
• Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, HTTP/HTTPS.
• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Understanding of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with REST APIs.
• Infrastructure-as-Code concepts.
• Ansible Core.
• Ansible Automation Platform (AAP).
• Ansible Automation Controller / AWX.
• Ansible Galaxy.
• Ansible Collections.
• Ansible Vault.
• Dynamic Inventory.
• Ansible Roles.
• Jinja2 Templates.

Skills

• AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Terraform.
• Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Jenkins.
• Python.
• Cisco automation.
• VMware.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• HashiCorp Vault.
• ServiceNow integration.
• automation.
• infrastructure.
• aws.
• application.
• ci.
• linux.
• azure.
• code.
• vault.
• ansible.