Ansible Developer

Summary:

This consultant will act as the Ansible playbook developer responsible for creating the blueprint that can be replicated as needed. They will make automation seamless by helping build back-end features such as virtual machines, load balaners, infrastructure automation and Ansible features (Ansible towers). These playbooks contain modules that are basically actions that run-in host machines. The mechanism is followed here is the push mechanism, so ansible pushes small programs to these host machines which are written to be resource models of the desired state of the system. Develop Ansible playbooks and modules.

Daily responsibilities:

Administer Ansible infrastructure, perform maintenance and configuration and provide SME level support .
Develop, configure and administer DevOps and IT automation solutions.
Understand and remediate complex issues and topologies of large enterprises
Provide technical support to Dev teams around automation solution usage
Understand the current technology infrastructure for the assigned business applications.
Contribute to the design of future state automated deployment process and architecture.
Develop automation scripts/templates/playbooks based on the approved future state deployment architecture.
Translates loosely defined requirements into automated build and deployment solutions
Works on assigned automation work items supporting the overall infrastructure automation initiative.
Identify dependencies, blockers and escalate to managers for timely intervention and resolution of the issues.
Provide detailed status updates on assigned work items.
Ensures all technical documents are up to date and code written is fully checked into version control systems.
Collaborates with others on the project to brainstorm about the best way to tackle complex technological infrastructure automation requirements.
Performs incremental testing actions on code, processes, and deployments to identify ways to streamline execution and minimize errors encountered.

Top required technical skills:

8-10 years of total experience- Ansible Playbook development experience - provisioning Azure/AWS
8-10 years total experience- Cloud Azure Experience (infrastructure, Virtual Machines, NSG's & Virtual networks) OR equivalent experience in AWS
Ansible Infra admin experience, PERL and PowerShell scripting for reverse engineering legacy automation solutions
Strong Linux experience

Three Skills that are nice to have:

Ansible Infrastructure Admin experience
Terraform experience is desired
Retail/Business/Tech experience desired