Enterprise Automation Specialist (Ansible/AWX/AAP)

Enterprise Automation Specialist (Ansible/AWX/AAP) - 10-14 Yrs - Pune/Bangalore Location

About the Team

The Enterprise Platform Engineering team is responsible for delivering scalable, secure, and resilient automation capabilities across global infrastructure environments. The team drives infrastructure modernization, operational excellence, and enterprise-wide automation adoption through industry-leading automation and DevOps practices.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead the architecture, engineering, governance, and lifecycle management of Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), AWX, and enterprise automation solutions.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, patching, compliance, and operational workflows.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices and automation standards across enterprise platforms.
• Develop and maintain advanced automation solutions using Python, PowerShell, Bash, and other scripting technologies.
• Integrate automation platforms with enterprise tools including ServiceNow, monitoring solutions, cloud platforms, infrastructure management systems, and REST APIs.
• Establish automation governance, coding standards, Git workflows, branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and platform best practices.
• Lead platform upgrades, troubleshooting, performance tuning, resiliency improvements, and disaster recovery initiatives.
• Implement and manage security controls including RBAC, secrets management, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Partner with infrastructure, cloud, security, application, and operations teams to identify automation opportunities and drive modernization programs.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership on automation strategy, architecture, and operational excellence.
• Leverage AI and Copilot technologies to accelerate automation development, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Automation, or Systems Engineering.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Ansible, AWX, or Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• Strong hands-on development experience using Python, PowerShell, Bash, and Shell scripting.
• Proven experience leading enterprise-scale automation initiatives and platform operations.
• Experience delivering large-scale infrastructure modernization and automation transformation programs.
• Strong knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems, virtualization technologies, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation frameworks, and configuration management principles.
• Extensive experience designing, deploying, upgrading, operating, and troubleshooting enterprise-scale automation platforms.
• Strong proficiency with GitHub, Git branching strategies, code review processes, and CI/CD methodologies.
• Experience integrating automation solutions with REST APIs, ServiceNow, monitoring platforms, infrastructure tools, and cloud services.
• Experience implementing platform resiliency, observability, disaster recovery, security controls, RBAC, and secrets management solutions.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and solution architecture capabilities.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
• Ability to effectively leverage AI-assisted development tools and Copilot technologies.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes administration experience.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code tooling expertise.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP cloud platforms.
• Hands-on experience with ServiceNow, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and DevOps toolchains.
• Knowledge of Observability platforms, Enterprise Monitoring, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), and Platform Operations.
• Experience driving enterprise automation adoption and governance initiatives.
• Exposure to AI-assisted software engineering and automation enablement.

Preferred Certifications

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate
• GitHub Foundations or GitHub Advanced Security Certification

Added Bonus If You Have

• Experience supporting large-scale financial services environments.
• Expertise in multi-cloud automation strategies.
• Experience building reusable automation frameworks and enterprise automation standards.

What We Offer you

At FIS, we are as committed to growing our employees’ careers as our own business. We offer:

• Opportunities to innovate in fintech

• Inclusive and diverse team atmosphere

• Professional and personal development

• Resources to contribute to your community

• Competitive salary and benefits

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Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.