Ansible Automation Engineer

Job Description Roles & Responsibilities We are looking for an experienced Ansible L2 Automation Engineer to design, develop, integrate, and support enterprise automation use cases across a large banking IT environment. The resource will automate day-to-day operations, provisioning, patching, health checks, compliance checks, and remediation workflows across infrastructure, cloud, network, security, database, middleware, AIX, VMware, Nutanix, OCI, and mainframe-related environments. Key Responsibilities Design and maintain a modular, role-based Ansible project structure (collections, roles, playbooks) aligned to banking ITSM standards (ITIL v4). Build and enforce Ansible best practices: idempotency, error handling, vault secrets management, and tag-based execution strategies. Develop reusable Ansible Collections for internal consumption and publish to a private Automation Hub / Galaxy. Integrate Ansible with AWX / Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) 2.x for workflow orchestration, RBAC, and audit trail. Architect end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for playbook testing (Molecule, ansible-lint, YAML lint) via GitLab CI / Jenkins. Automate VM lifecycle: provisioning, cloning, snapshot management, decommissioning via community. VMware collection. Integrate with vRealize Orchestrator and NSX-T for network-aware VM provisioning. Health checks: datastore capacity, VM sprawl detection, HA/DRS cluster status, vCenter certificate expiry. Automate cluster provisioning, VM creation, disk/network attachment via nutanix. ncp collection Automate OCI resource provisioning: Compute instances, VCNs, subnets, Block Volumes, OCI Vault secrets via oracle. oci collection. Implement cost governance: tag enforcement playbooks, idle resource detection, and scheduled shutdown/startup. Automate AIX system provisioning via NIM (Network Installation Manager) integrated with Ansible. Manage LPAR lifecycle, VIOS virtual adapter configuration, and WPARs using ibm. power aix collection. Automate configuration management for multi-vendor network devices (Cisco IOS/NX-OS, Juniper JunOS, Arista EOS, F5 BIG-IP) using platform-specific Ansible collections. Implement network compliance playbooks: enforce baseline configs, detect drift, and remediate via NAPALM / netconf / RESTCONF. Design and operate bank-wide OS patching automation for Linux (RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu), Windows Server, AIX, and OCI instances. Integrate patching workflows with ServiceNow: auto-open CRQs, update CMDB, close with compliance evidence. Develop and schedule comprehensive health-check playbooks for all platforms (daily/weekly/on-demand). Build capacity reporting automation: CPU/memory/storage trending, forecast alerts. TECHNICAL SKILLS & PLATFORM Ansible Core AAP 2.x / AWX, Ansible Navigator, Ansible Lint, Molecule, RBAC, Execution Environments, Collections, Vault VMware vSphere 7/8, vCenter, ESXi, NSX-T, vSAN, vROps, SDDC Manager, community. VMware CI/CD & DevOps GitLab CI, Jenkins, Git, Jinja2, YAML, Python 3.x, Bash, REST API, JSON/YAML parsing ITSM & Monitoring ServiceNow (CMDB, CRQ, Incident), Splunk, ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace Security & Compliance CIS Benchmarks, STIG, PCI-DSS, SWIFT CSP, HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk AAM, Qualys/Tenable API CERTIFICATIONS REQUIRED & RECOMMENDED Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced Automation (EX374) Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE EX294 Ansible) Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) Implementation Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) Company Industry IT - Software Services Department / Functional Area IT Software Keywords Ansible Automation Engineer Get real-time job updates only on our App