Ansible Developer

Job ID: 35784696

Budget: $15 – $25 USD

The Ansible Developer will be one of the technical experts for Ansible ecosystem & DevOps practices within the organization, providing solutions and technical implementation aligned with the automation program objectives. This team member will develop Ansible artefacts, troubleshoot issues and work on implementing configuration management roadmap of the organization

Required:

o 3-5 Years of Ansible playbook development on Unix
o 3-5 Linux System Administration, RHEL Preferred
o 1-2 Years of Ansible playbook development on Windows
o 1-2 Years of Ansible Tower/UI/AAP/API experience (i.e. access, templates, projects, etc)
o 1-2 Years Git
• A Plus:
o 1-2 Years Windows System Administration
o 1+ Years Grafana/Prometheus
o 1+ Years VMWare/ESX

Responsibilities:

Understand and remediate complex issues and topologies of large enterprises
Develop Ansible playbooks and modules
Define and setup the process for managing Ops developed playbooks
Administer Ansible infrastructure, perform maintenance and configuration and provide SME level support.
Auto configuration of standalone or cluster for middleware and database infrastructures, including the provisioning of Middleware and Database components after system builds.
Generate auto start/stop scripts, auto registration to load balancers, creation / cloning of database schemas using Ansible.
Generalize the ops playbooks for other environments and feedback / handover to the Platform Solutions team (where appropriate).
Provide advice and recommendation to improve the standards and policies (naming and organization conventions, etc) for the platform environment.
Provide technical support to IT ops around automation solution usage
Provide assistant to the DevOps team to develop, configure and administer overall DevOps and IT automation solutions.

Advantageous:
Design, develop, and implement test automation with Ansible
Automate daily tasks and improve overall test coverage using Python test frameworks and libraries.
Communicate test strategies and document test plans.
Deep understanding of PostgreSQL, Oracle, Apache, Tomcat and Nginx
Expert level understanding and implementation of RESTful, SOAP and SDK APIs
Broad and deep technical experience with one or more virtualization and cloud technologies like Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure.
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