Senior Automation Engineer with Ansible

Location: Woodlawn, MD
Onsite: 5 Days/Week
Interview: In-Person

Key Requirements:

Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant IT experience
Extensive hands-on experience with Ansible, including production-grade playbooks, roles, collections, templates, and reusable automation
Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), including administration and development
Strong AWS engineering experience
Experience designing, provisioning, configuring, and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure
Hands-on experience developing AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks
Experience using Ansible or similar automation tools to provision and manage AWS resources
Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, IAM, compute, storage, and related services
Strong Linux systems administration and engineering experience, preferably with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Experience with Linux patching, package management, authentication, networking, storage, SELinux, and firewalls
Proficiency with Python for infrastructure automation, scripting, APIs, and integrations
Experience with source control, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and unit testing
Experience building and maintaining containerized execution environments
Experience with Red Hat Satellite and Linux lifecycle/patch management
Experience with Linux identity and authentication technologies such as Red Hat IdM/FreeIPA
Ability to independently own complex technical assignments with minimal supervision

Preferred Experience:

Additional Responsibilities:

Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise automation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Develop Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, templates, job templates, and workflows for Linux and AWS infrastructure.
Develop automation for AWS networking, compute, storage, security, and supporting services.
Administer AAP inventories, credentials, RBAC, organizations, job templates, workflows, execution environments, and Ansible Builder.
Automate Linux provisioning, configuration management, patching, security hardening, authentication, networking, storage, SELinux, and firewall management.
Integrate Red Hat Satellite with Linux management and automation workflows.
Build and customize containerized execution environments.
Develop automated tests and integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines.
Develop patch-management automation using AWS Systems Manager.
Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across AWS, Linux, networking, authentication, storage, security, and application dependencies.

Senior Automation Engineer with Ansible

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