DevOps Automation Engineer - Ansible & AAP | NV1 Eligible

Green Light; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Green Light Worldwide in Canberra is seeking an Automation Engineer (DevOps) to build and operate the Ansible Automation Platform, so day-2 operations on RHEL and OpenShift are automated, ISM-aligned and reusable by staff, with a Hybrid Work arrangement. You will patch and manage playbooks, design patching automation for RHEL 8/9, and ensure compliance and audit readiness.

A NV1 clearance is preferred, and you will collaborate across infrastructure teams to standardise automation and deliver

Qualifications

• 5+ years enterprise Ansible, including AAP (or tower/AWX at equivalent scale).
• Red Hat Certified specialist in Developing Automation or equivalent competence.
• Experience delivering automation that survives an audit and staff rotation.

Responsibilities

• Patch and release management.
• Recommendations to maintain currency.
• Establish and maintain Ansible Playbook Management to offer services.
• Review of existing playbooks for usage, quality and reusability for migration to the new AAP service.
• Establish templates for use by the Midrange and other infrastructure teams to encourage reuse and standardisation of playbooks.
• Provide assistance to the Midrange and other infrastructure teams to create new Playbooks according to best practice.
• Patching automation solution design for RHEL 8.x x86-64 and RHEL 9.x x86-64.
• Document requirements, accountable design decisions, solution overview and relevant diagrams in a High-Level Design document.
• Automation Development as required.
• Establishment of the technical capability to support Essential 8 Maturity Level (ML) 1 compliance from an operating system patching.

Skills

Ansible

AAP/AWX

Audit-ready automation

Tools

Red Hat Ansible Tower/AWX

Job description

Green Light Worldwide in Canberra is seeking an Automation Engineer (DevOps) to build and operate the Ansible Automation Platform, so day-2 operations on RHEL and OpenShift are automated, ISM-aligned and reusable by staff, with a Hybrid Work arrangement. You will patch and manage playbooks, design patching automation for RHEL 8/9, and ensure compliance and audit readiness.

A NV1 clearance is preferred, and you will collaborate across infrastructure teams to standardise automation and deliver