Ansible Automation and Platform Engineer

Job Description

The Role:

The Ansible Automation & Platform Engineer is a strategic member of the organizations Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)responsible for its operations roadmap execution governance and enterprisewide adoption. This role blends deep technical mastery with platform engineering leadership ensuring that automation becomes a scalable secure and customercentric capability across the enterprise.

You will maintain design and evolve the Ansible Platform build reusable automation frameworks integrate automation with other platforms like ServiceNow and drive the next generation of operational excellence through Agentic AIpowered automation. This role is central to enabling selfservice reducing operational toil and modernizing infrastructure operations.

What Youll Do:

Ansible Platform Development & Operation

• Design implement and operate the Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) including controller execution environments mesh architecture and collections strategy.

• Define and maintain the Ansible Platform roadmap including feature evolution lifecycle management scalability planning and enterprise adoption milestones.

• Establish platform governance: coding standards role/playbook patterns collections testing frameworks and security guardrails.

• Build and maintain Execution Environments (EEs) optimized for performance security and dependency management.

• Lead platform upgrades migrations and crossenvironment standardization.

Automation Framework Design

• Design enterprisegrade Ansible automation frameworks with reusable roles collections and modular playbooks.

• Build automation for provisioning configuration management patching compliance and cloud infrastructure.

• Integrate Ansible with Terraform CI/CD pipelines GitOps workflows and eventdriven automation systems.

• Implement selfservice automation capabilities for developers operations and business teams.

Agentic AI Integration

• Integrate Agentic AI systems to enhance automation workflows including:

  • AIdriven playbook generation and validation

  • Automated remediation recommendations

  • Intelligent changeimpact analysis

  • AIassisted troubleshooting and rootcause analysis

• Design automation patterns that combine AI reasoning with Ansible execution for predictive and autonomous operations.

• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to embed automation signals into AIOps pipelines.

• Cloud Security and ITSM teams to drive automation maturity.

What Youll Need:

• 57 years in DevOps SRE Platform Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering.

• Expertlevel proficiency with Ansible (playbooks roles collections Jinja2 modules).

• Handson experience designing and operating Ansible Automation Platform (AAP).

• Strong experience with Terraform Chef or other IaC tools.

• Deep Linux engineering background and configuration management expertise.

• Experience integrating automation with ServiceNow (CMDB ITSM workflows).

• Strong scripting skills (Python Bash PowerShell).

• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP automation.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes containerization and orchestration.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience implementing Agentic AI or AIOpsdriven automation.

• Experience with eventdriven automation (StackStorm EventBridge Rundeck).

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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