Senior Ansible Platform Engineer | Canberra Hybrid

Kestrel Eight; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 166,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Kestrel Eight is recruiting a senior Ansible Automation Platform Engineer to build and operate Ansible Automation Platform for an Australian Government agency. The role is a 12‑month contract starting 1 December 2026, with Canberra strongly preferred and hybrid work options.

You will oversee day-2 operations, patching, and standardisation of playbooks, delivering reusable automation and ensuring ISM alignment and Essential Eight compliance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of enterprise Ansible experience and Ansible Automation Platform (or Tower/AWX) experience.
• Experience delivering automation that survives an audit and changes in staff.
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation or equivalent competence.

Responsibilities

• Run platform day 2 operations, patch and release management, and recommend currency maintenance.
• Establish and maintain playbook management for the agency’s infrastructure teams.
• Review existing playbooks for usage, quality and reusability ahead of migration to the new Ansible Automation Platform service.
• Establish templates that encourage reuse and standardisation of playbooks.
• Help the midrange and other infrastructure teams write new playbooks to good practice.
• Design patching automation for RHEL 8.x and RHEL 9.x on x86-64.
• Record requirements, design decisions, the solution overview and diagrams in a High-Level Design document.
• Develop automation as required.
• Establish the technical capability to support Essential Eight Maturity Level 1 compliance for operating system patching.

Skills

Ansible

Automation

Auditable automation

Education

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation

Tools

Ansible Automation Platform

Tower/AWX

Job description

Kestrel Eight is recruiting a senior Ansible Automation Platform Engineer to build and operate Ansible Automation Platform for an Australian Government agency. The role is a 12‑month contract starting 1 December 2026, with Canberra strongly preferred and hybrid work options.

You will oversee day-2 operations, patching, and standardisation of playbooks, delivering reusable automation and ensuring ISM alignment and Essential Eight compliance.