Senior Ansible Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and modules for infrastructure automation • Automate provisioning, configuration management, patching, and deployment activities • Work with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) / Tower for job orchestration • Integrate Ansible with tools like ServiceNow, Splunk, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines • Design reusable and scalable automation frameworks • Perform troubleshooting, debugging, and optimization of automation workflows • Ensure best practices such as idempotency, error handling, tagging, and version control • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify automation opportunities • Create documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer sessions

Requirements

• Ansible Collections – Build and manage structured, reusable automation components. • AWX / Ansible Tower (AAP) – Configure job templates, workflows, RBAC, and credentials. • CI/CD Tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps) – Integrate Ansible into automated pipelines. • Vault Tools (Ansible Vault, HashiCorp Vault) – Secure secrets and sensitive variables. • Cloud & Platform Modules – Automate AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, Kubernetes resources.

Additional: • Strong hands-on experience with Ansible • Good knowledge of Linux/Unix administration • Experience with YAML, Jinja2 templating, and Git • Understanding of REST APIs and integrations • Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.) • Basic scripting knowledge (Python/Bash/PowerShell)