Accountabilities:
Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, and inventories across development, staging, and production environments.
Build reusable, modular Ansible roles following Galaxy standards and organizational best practices.
Develop and maintain Ansible Collections for internal distribution.
Create custom Ansible modules and plugins in Python, including action, callback, connection, and lookup plugins.
Implement reliable, idempotent, and fault-tolerant automation for operating system hardening, application deployment, configuration management, and cloud provisioning.
Integrate Ansible with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.
Implement automated testing frameworks using Molecule, Testinfra, and pytest.
Administer Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and AWX, including organizations, inventories, credentials, projects, templates, and workflows.
Apply GitOps practices and manage automation code through Git-based workflows.
Define Ansible coding standards, ansible-lint rules, code review practices, and development guidelines.
Automate AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP environments using Ansible cloud modules and dynamic inventories.
Integrate Ansible with Terraform to support hybrid Infrastructure-as-Code workflows.
Automate infrastructure patching, compliance enforcement, configuration management, and drift remediation at scale.
Manage secrets using Ansible Vault and enterprise secrets-management platforms.
Automate CIS Benchmark and STIG-based system hardening and compliance.
Review automation code for security vulnerabilities, including hardcoded credentials, insecure configurations, and excessive privilege escalation.
Conduct Ansible code reviews, mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and establish automation architecture and development standards.
Create architecture documentation, operational runbooks, and onboarding guides.
Evaluate and recommend tools and technologies within the Ansible ecosystem.
Requirements
Minimum 5 years of hands-on Ansible experience, particularly with Microsoft Azure.
Strong experience administering Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) or AWX.
Expert understanding of Ansible architecture, including control and managed nodes, static and dynamic inventories, facts, SSH, WinRM, and network CLI connections.
Advanced knowledge of Ansible playbook constructs, including handlers, loops, conditionals, blocks, tags, delegation, error handling, and rescue mechanisms.
Advanced proficiency in Jinja2 templating, filters, tests, custom filters, and complex data transformations.
Strong Python programming skills for scripting and custom Ansible module development.
Deep understanding of Ansible roles, including defaults, variables, metadata dependencies, include_role, and import_role.
Experience developing and publishing Ansible Collections through Galaxy or private Automation Hub.
Knowledge of Ansible performance tuning, including ansible.cfg optimization, forks, pipelining, SSH multiplexing, and callback plugins.
Linux administration experience across RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu, including networking, systemd, and package management.
Strong experience with Git workflows, branching strategies, pull requests, and tagging.
Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and Ansible Kubernetes modules.
Experience with Ansible Vault and enterprise secrets-management solutions.
Experience with CI/CD tools, automated testing frameworks, and infrastructure automation practices.
Excellent technical leadership, mentoring, communication, and collaboration skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on automation architecture, security, and operational efficiency.
Ability to create technical documentation, enforce coding standards, and guide engineering teams toward best practices.
Experience with Event-Driven Ansible (EDA), AWX, and Receptor is considered an advantage.
Benefits
Work arrangement: Remote opportunity.
Location: India, with listed locations including Gurugram and Pune.
Employment type: Full-time.
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