Ansible Automation & Platform Services Engineer | Remote | Contractual Role

Experience: 6+ years DevOps / Platform / Systems Engineering

Ansible: 3+ years hands-on with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Mandatory: Inactive UAN & LinkedIn Profile Required

Work Requirements:

- Must be available for a minimum of 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern business hours.

- Occasional Sunday deployment and maintenance support may be required, generally between 8:00 AM and 12:00 PM US Eastern Time.

- Must comply with background screening and secure-workspace requirements.

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Ansible Automation & Platform Services Engineer with strong expertise in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, enterprise automation, platform administration, and DevOps tooling. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience managing automation platforms, artifact repositories, security tools, databases, and enterprise infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

- Administer Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, including Automation Controller, Private Automation Hub, Event-Driven Ansible, execution nodes, inventories, credentials, and job templates.

- Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, rulebooks, custom collections, and reusable automation for Windows and Linux/RHEL environments.

- Design and implement event-driven automation using event streams, rulebooks, and automated actions.

- Build, version, and promote Ansible collections and execution environments through Private Automation Hub.

- Automate platform administration using REST APIs and Configuration as Code.

- Manage JFrog Artifactory, Xray, and Advanced Security, including repositories, access controls, scanning, upgrades, backups, and troubleshooting.

- Administer SonarQube, including scanners, plugins, permissions, quality gates, and database dependencies.

- Support PostgreSQL connectivity, backup and recovery, upgrades, capacity planning, and monitoring.

- Integrate enterprise services with AD/LDAP, secret management, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Power Automate, monitoring, logging, databases, and APIs.

- Collaborate with CI/CD teams to integrate Ansible automation with pipelines, webhooks, credentials, artifacts, and deployments.

- Support Windows Server, Linux/RHEL, containers, networking, certificates, storage, and virtualization.

- Handle platform upgrades, patching, production changes, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.

- Maintain technical documentation, establish automation standards, and mentor engineering teams.

Mandatory Skills:

- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Systems Engineering.

- Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

- Strong experience with Automation Controller, Private Automation Hub, Event-Driven Ansible, Ansible collections, and execution environments.

- Hands-on experience with JFrog Artifactory and Xray, or comparable artifact management and security platforms.

- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL administration and troubleshooting.

- Strong knowledge of Windows Server and Linux/RHEL environments.

- Strong scripting skills in PowerShell and Python.

- Working knowledge of Shell scripting, YAML, JSON, and REST APIs.

- Experience with enterprise security, change management, audit requirements, and production support.

- Good written and verbal English communication skills.

Good to Have:

- Experience with Bitbucket Cloud, Bitbucket Pipelines, or Bamboo.

- Knowledge of JFrog CLI, Frogbot, and software supply-chain security.

- Experience with Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, or K3S.

- Experience integrating CI/CD pipelines with Ansible automation.

- Exposure to AWS, Azure, Infrastructure as Code, and virtualization.

- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools.

- Experience with AI-assisted automation tools.