Ansible Developer

Job Code : EWC - 1324

• Experience creating and maintaining Ansible playbooks and roles, including testing with Molecule and  pytest
• Orchestrate playbooks, roles, templates, and workflow execution with vRealize Orchestrator/vRealize Automation and ServiceNow
• Experience creating and maintaining job templates, projects, workflows in Ansible Automation Platform (Ansible Tower)
• Understanding how to plan and implement Ansible Automation Platform (Ansible Tower)
• Firm understanding of best practices for the use of Ansible Automation Platform (Ansible Tower)
• Ability to mentor other engineers on the use of Ansible Automation Platform (Ansible Tower)
• Automate the creation, updating, and deleting of Azure, GCP, and AWS cloud resources with Ansible Automation Platform
• Firm understanding on the use of gitops deployment model.
• Understanding of REST APIs (client and service)

Network Automation Experience
• Cisco ACI
• F5 Load Balancers
• Palo Alto Firewalls
• Infoblox IPAM
• Azure, GCP, and AWS networking constructs
Storage Automation Experience
• NetApp
• Pure Storage
• Cloud Storage Constructs
Compute Automation Experience
• Create Windows and Linux VM's in VMWare, Azure, GCP, and AWS leveraging resiliency patterns, confidential computing techniques
• Manage VM's using Ansible Windows DSC and PS Modules, and Linux playbooks
• Create Azure Kubernetes Services, Google Kubernetes Services, and RedHat OpenShift Clusters
• Establish Data layer systems (cloud database services) and integration into the application fabric
IAM Automation
• Leverage Ansible Windows DSC and PS modules to automate Active Directory and Azure Active Directory
• Deployment experience in leveraging WinRM in Ansible Automation Platform
• Automation of CyberArk Vaults, Azure KeyVaults, GCP Secret Manager
• VM join Integration with Azure AD/Active Directory on instantiation
Robotic Process Automation
• Leverage Ansible modules for Selenium to execute presentation layer automation
• Leverage existing RPA platforms in Ansible playbooks (MSFT Power Automate, Pega RPA)
Application Deployment and Site Reliability Engineering Implementations
• Leverage Ansible git modules to control application code deployment
• Ensure that Shared Services CICD pipeline has access to the newly created hosting environment
• Leverage winget, chocolatey, YUM/DNF repositories to set up application components and hosting environments
• Install and ensure all observability monitoring, security agents and endpoint protection extensions, and logging and metrics collection points are established
• Coordination of deployment strategies to ensure flawless operation of hosting environments
 

• 5+ years experience in design, implementation, monitoring and troubleshooting infrastructure in a Windows and Linux environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in an IT related field or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ years of experience installing, configuring and supporting RedHat OpenShift 4 With Ansible.
• Experience supporting applications running on Docker and Kubernetes.
• 3+ years of solid Linux Administration experience.
• Architected/Installed Ansible Tower in enterprise environment (preferably with cloud)
• RHCSA and RHCE certification is preferred.