Automation Engineer (Ansible / Infrastructure)

About the role

We are seeking a skilled Ansible Automation Engineer to join our team to transform manual operational workflows into repeatable, automated infrastructure code. In this role, you will work closely with enterprise infrastructure and operations teams to build and maintain automation across server, virtualization, and storage environments.

Location: Telecommute. Job type: Contract. Education: Bachelors degree required.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain production Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, and automation pipelines.
• Automate the provisioning, patching, configuration, and decommissioning lifecycle of Linux and Windows servers.
• Manage and optimize Ansible Automation Platform (AAP/AWX) environments, including workflows, credentials, and access controls.
• Refactor and migrate legacy shell scripts and configuration tools to standardized Ansible playbooks.
• Implement robust code testing, branching standards, and clear runbook documentation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or Linux systems administration (preferably RHEL).
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing Ansible code in production (roles, collections, Jinja2, Vault).
• Strong experience with Git version control and scripting in Python or Bash.
• Solid understanding of core enterprise infrastructure concepts including networking, DNS/DHCP, storage, and virtualization.
• Excellent communication and technical writing skills with the ability to work independently in a remote setting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Ansible Automation Platform / AWX / Ansible Tower.
• Experience automating cloud (AWS/Azure) or enterprise virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere, Nutanix).
• Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes/OpenShift, or enterprise integrations (ServiceNow, Infoblox).

Skills

• AWS
• Ansible Automation
• Ansible
• Ansible Automation Platform
• Ansible Tower
• Bash scripting
• code structure
• container platforms
• configuration tools
• enterprise storage
• DNS
• DHCP
• Git
• Jinja2
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Azure
• NetApp