Ansible Automation & Platform Services Engineer - DevOps
First seen by Alion on Oct 23, 2026.
Ansible Automation & Platform Services Engineer | Remote | Contractual Role
Experience: 6+ years DevOps / Platform / Systems Engineering
Ansible: 3+ years hands-on with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Mandatory: Inactive UAN & LinkedIn Profile Required
Work Requirements:
- Must be available for a minimum of 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern business hours.
- Occasional Sunday deployment and maintenance support may be required, generally between 8:00 AM and 12:00 PM US Eastern Time.
- Must comply with background screening and secure-workspace requirements.
Job Description:
We are looking for an experienced Ansible Automation & Platform Services Engineer with strong expertise in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, enterprise automation, platform administration, and DevOps tooling. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience managing automation platforms, artifact repositories, security tools, databases, and enterprise infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Administer Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, including Automation Controller, Private Automation Hub, Event-Driven Ansible, execution nodes, inventories, credentials, and job templates.
- Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, rulebooks, custom collections, and reusable automation for Windows and Linux/RHEL environments.
- Design and implement event-driven automation using event streams, rulebooks, and automated actions.
- Build, version, and promote Ansible collections and execution environments through Private Automation Hub.
- Automate platform administration using REST APIs and Configuration as Code.
- Manage JFrog Artifactory, Xray, and Advanced Security, including repositories, access controls, scanning, upgrades, backups, and troubleshooting.
- Administer SonarQube, including scanners, plugins, permissions, quality gates, and database dependencies.
- Support PostgreSQL connectivity, backup and recovery, upgrades, capacity planning, and monitoring.
- Integrate enterprise services with AD/LDAP, secret management, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Power Automate, monitoring, logging, databases, and APIs.
- Collaborate with CI/CD teams to integrate Ansible automation with pipelines, webhooks, credentials, artifacts, and deployments.
- Support Windows Server, Linux/RHEL, containers, networking, certificates, storage, and virtualization.
- Handle platform upgrades, patching, production changes, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
- Maintain technical documentation, establish automation standards, and mentor engineering teams.
Mandatory Skills:
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Systems Engineering.
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
- Strong experience with Automation Controller, Private Automation Hub, Event-Driven Ansible, Ansible collections, and execution environments.
- Hands-on experience with JFrog Artifactory and Xray, or comparable artifact management and security platforms.
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL administration and troubleshooting.
- Strong knowledge of Windows Server and Linux/RHEL environments.
- Strong scripting skills in PowerShell and Python.
- Working knowledge of Shell scripting, YAML, JSON, and REST APIs.
- Experience with enterprise security, change management, audit requirements, and production support.
- Good written and verbal English communication skills.
Good to Have:
- Experience with Bitbucket Cloud, Bitbucket Pipelines, or Bamboo.
- Knowledge of JFrog CLI, Frogbot, and software supply-chain security.
- Experience with Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, or K3S.
- Experience integrating CI/CD pipelines with Ansible automation.
- Exposure to AWS, Azure, Infrastructure as Code, and virtualization.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools.
- Experience with AI-assisted automation tools.
Skills
DevOps, Ansible, PostgreSQL, Python, PowerShell, Linux, Windows Server, Artifact Management