Senior Automation Engineer with Ansible
About The Position
We are seeking a Senior Automation Engineer with extensive experience in Ansible to join our team. This role involves designing, developing, testing, and maintaining enterprise automation solutions for Linux and AWS infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, AWS engineering, and Linux systems administration. You will be responsible for automating various aspects of infrastructure management, including provisioning, configuration, patching, security hardening, and more. This position requires the ability to work independently on complex technical assignments with minimal supervision.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant IT experience
- Extensive hands-on experience with Ansible, including production-grade playbooks, roles, collections, templates, and reusable automation
- Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), including administration and development
- Strong AWS engineering experience
- Experience designing, provisioning, configuring, and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure
- Hands-on experience developing AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks
- Experience using Ansible or similar automation tools to provision and manage AWS resources
- Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, IAM, compute, storage, and related services
- Strong Linux systems administration and engineering experience, preferably with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Experience with Linux patching, package management, authentication, networking, storage, SELinux, and firewalls
- Proficiency with Python for infrastructure automation, scripting, APIs, and integrations
- Experience with source control, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and unit testing
- Experience building and maintaining containerized execution environments
- Experience with Red Hat Satellite and Linux lifecycle/patch management
- Experience with Linux identity and authentication technologies such as Red Hat IdM/FreeIPA
- Ability to independently own complex technical assignments with minimal supervision
Nice To Haves
- AWS Systems Manager and patch-management automation
- STIG implementation, remediation, or compliance validation
- FIPS-enabled environments
- Large-scale enterprise Linux and AWS environments
- Federal government, regulated, or security-sensitive environments
- Red Hat, Ansible, Linux, Python, or AWS certifications
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise automation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
- Develop Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, templates, job templates, and workflows for Linux and AWS infrastructure.
- Develop automation for AWS networking, compute, storage, security, and supporting services.
- Administer AAP inventories, credentials, RBAC, organizations, job templates, workflows, execution environments, and Ansible Builder.
- Automate Linux provisioning, configuration management, patching, security hardening, authentication, networking, storage, SELinux, and firewall management.
- Integrate Red Hat Satellite with Linux management and automation workflows.
- Build and customize containerized execution environments.
- Develop automated tests and integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop patch-management automation using AWS Systems Manager.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across AWS, Linux, networking, authentication, storage, security, and application dependencies.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
