Senior Ansible Automation & Platform Engineer

• Architect, design, 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 cross-environment standardization
• Design enterprise-grade 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 event-driven automation systems
• Implement self-service automation capabilities for developers, operations, and business teams
• Integrate Agentic AI systems to enhance automation workflows, including: AI-driven playbook generation and validation, Automated remediation recommendations, Intelligent change-impact analysis, AI-assisted troubleshooting and root-cause 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
• Partner with Cloud, Security, and ITSM teams to drive automation maturity

• 7–12+ years in Architecture, DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
• Expert-level proficiency with Ansible (playbooks, roles, collections, Jinja2, modules)
• Hands-on 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
• Expert in integrating automation with ServiceNow (CMDB, ITSM, workflows)
• Exceptional scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP automation
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and orchestration
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)

• Experience implementing Agentic AI or AIOps-driven automation
• Experience with event-driven automation (StackStorm, EventBridge, Rundeck)
• Experience with network automation (Ansible Network, NAPALM, Netmiko)
• Certifications: RHCE, RHCA, Terraform Associate, AWS/Azure Architect

Relocation benefits (may be eligible)