DevOps Engineer (Ansible Platform Owner)

Location: Onsite/Hybrid (Specify later)

Employment Type: Full-time | Permanent

Overview

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in developing and managing the Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). This role is not for someone who simply uses Ansible playbooks — it requires an engineer who can build, scale, secure, integrate, and own the Ansible Platform as a product for our enterprise.

You will design automation frameworks, build custom modules, manage RBAC, standardize execution environments, and integrate Ansible with cloud provisioning systems like Terraform and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and Ansible Tower at an enterprise scale.
• Develop custom Ansible modules, plugins, dynamic inventories, and collections.
• Own and enforce RBAC, logging, auditing, compliance, governance & security on AAP.
• Build and maintain execution environments to standardize automation runtime.
• Manage Automation Hub and Content Collections with version control and quality controls.
• Integrate AAP with Terraform, AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise authentication.
• Build end-to-end Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation for cloud provisioning and configuration.
• Lead platform upgrades, scaling, HA, certificate management, health monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Implement automation frameworks to support application deployment & security policies.
• Provide platform engineering support, best practices, and automation standards to internal teams.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of DevOps and Infrastructure Automation experience.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and Ansible Tower.
• Experience developing backend Ansible content, including custom modules, dynamic inventories, collections, execution environments.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code.
• Hands‑on experience with Terraform for cloud infrastructure provisioning.
• Experience automating and orchestrating workloads on AWS.
• Experience implementing RBAC, security policies, auditing and logging on automation platforms.
• Strong Linux fundamentals, scripting (Python, Bash, YAML) & version control (Git).

Preferred Skills

• Red Hat Certification (RHCE / RHCA).
• Experience with Terraform Cloud or Enterprise.
• CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab).
• Experience with Artifact Repositories (Nexus, JFrog).
• Understanding of container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).