Senior Ansible Developer- Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne

It Alliance Australia; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

It Alliance Australia is seeking multiple Senior Ansible Developers at the EL1 level to work across Canberra, Brisbane, and Melbourne. The role focuses on automation using Ansible, Python and PowerShell, with a strong emphasis on design, architecture, and hands-on delivery.

You will lead a team of software engineers, oversee code quality, testing, and integration with ITSM processes, while ensuring security compliance and successful delivery of automation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience leading automation projects with Ansible and automation platforms.
• Strong Python scripting and PowerShell capabilities.
• Hands-on RHEL/Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Ability to document designs and support handover.
• Experience with CI/CD and Git workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test and support enterprise automation with Ansible.
• Design automation across infrastructure, cloud, networks, and ITSM.
• Provide technical guidance across automation and AI initiatives.
• Contribute to testing, deployment and release readiness.

Skills

Automation

Ansible

Python scripting

PowerShell

RHEL/Linux

REST API

DevOps

AI initiatives

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

One of our Federal government clients seeking to engage multiple Senior Ansible developers.

Role: Senior Ansible Developer (Software Engineer) - (EL1 Level)

Location of work: Canberra, Brisbane and Melbourne

Length of contract: 12 months

Contract extensions: 24 months extension

Security clearance: Must be an Australian citizen and holding minimum Negative Vetting Level 1 security clearance

Job details

Software Engineers have experience overseeing software development projects, writing optimised code, and provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers. They are responsible for the quality and functionality of the software produced by their team.

The Ansible Developers will be responsible for the provision of expertise in delivering automation solutions using the agency’s automation tool, Ansible, to support the objectives and agreed benefits for the Service Management & Self-Healing Automation Project.

The role will contribute to the design, architecture and delivery of automation solutions using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Python and PowerShell, helping drive automation adoption.This will ensure the required automation outcomes are delivered successfully.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Develop, test and support enterprise automation using Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform, including playbooks, roles, inventories, workflows, APIs, and integration with enterprise infrastructure and ITSM processes.
• Design automation that considers operational support, stakeholder communication, change management, failure handling, logging, monitoring and clear escalation paths Design, develop and deploy automation, workflow and AI-enabled solutions that reduce manual effort, improve productivity, and create workforce capacity
• Design and deliver automation across infrastructure, cloud, networks, security, and ITSM
• Provide technical guidance and subject matter expertise across automation and AI initiatives
• Contribute to testing, deployment, release management and operational readiness activities for automation and AI solutions

Technical skills (to be continued)

• Experience with Git/GitLab + CI/CD / automation-as-code
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale automation and technology transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to document technical designs, support arrangements, implementation steps, and knowledge transfer material to enable sustainable handover.
• Ability to work with a range of technical and business staff including platform teams, database administrators, Linux engineers, project delivery teams, and business stakeholders to confirm requirements and validate outcomes

Technical skills

• Experienced in automation, DevOps, platform engineering, or managed services.
• Strong experience with Ansible playbooks, roles, inventories, variables, handlers, templates, modules, and reusable automation
• Strong RHEL/Linux administration, patching, services, packages, permissions, filesystems, and troubleshooting
• Strong automation development skills in Python scripting for custom automation, REST API interaction and extending Ansible where required