DevOps Engineer (Ansible) (W2 Only)

Role: Platform Engineer – Ansible Automation Platform (AAP/Tower) | DevOps / SRE

Location: Charlotte, NC | Onsite (as required by Client)

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Ansible Automation Platform (AAP / Tower)
• Design, develop, and support Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, and execution environments using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP / Tower)
• Administer and operate Ansible Tower/AAP, including inventories, credentials, projects, job templates, workflows, RBAC, and access controls
• Integrate AAP with enterprise authentication, secrets management, and logging platforms

o Build standardized automation frameworks for provisioning, configuration management, patching, and lifecycle management

o Enable governed self-service automation while maintaining strong controls and approvals

o Automate compliance validation, configuration drift detection, and remediation

SRE & Reliability Engineering

• Apply SRE principles to improve availability, resiliency, and MTTR across supported platforms
• Support SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets through automation and observability integration
• Automate operational tasks such as health checks, remediation, failover validation, and recovery procedures

Observability & Monitoring

• Integrate Ansible automation with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Automate instrumentation, alert configuration, and telemetry onboarding
• Support proactive issue detection and incident response
• DevOps & CI/CD Integration
• Integrate AAP automation into enterprise CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps)
• Promote DevOps best practices including source control, automated testing, and peer review
• Partner with application and platform teams to reduce manual effort and deployment risk
• Cloud, Security & Compliance
• Support automation across hybrid and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem)
• Embed security controls, secrets management, and least-privilege access into automation workflows
• Support audit, risk, and compliance reviews as required

Operations & Governance

o Participate in incident, change, and problem management processes

o Provide documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer.

Required Qualifications:

Technical Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP / Tower)
• Expertise in Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, workflows, and execution environments
• Experience with Linux/Unix systems administration
• Experience with CI/CD tools and Git-based source control
• Experience with observability platforms (monitoring, logging, tracing)
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Scripting experience with Python and/or Shell

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting enterprise-scale Ansible Tower/AAP environments
• Experience in financial services or other regulated environments
• Exposure to Kubernetes and container platforms
• Familiarity with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with secrets management solutions (CyberArk, Hashi Corp Vault, cloud-native services)
• Red Hat certifications (preferred):
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE