Expert Infrastructure As Code & Ansible

Keoni; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Keoni is seeking an Expert Infrastructure as Code & Ansible to lead the industrialization of automation across on‑prem environments. You will design reusable Ansible frameworks, drive standards, and transfer skills to squads as part of IT modernization.

The role requires deep hands‑on Ansible expertise, strong IaC discipline, and the ability to coach teams through best practices, with close collaboration across IT operations and security.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in designing and implementing Ansible playbooks, roles, inventories, and collections.
• Strong experience in industrializing IaC with coding standards, naming conventions, and versioning.
• Familiarity with ansible-lint, automated tests, and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Support squads in industrializing Ansible automation for on‑prem environments.
• Develop and share standards, templates, and reference playbooks.
• Deliver skills transfer through coaching and documentation as part of modernization programs.
• Contribute to CI/CD practices for Ansible deployments and operations.

Skills

Ansible Expert

IaC

GitOps

AWX/Ansible Tower

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Linux

Networking

Security

Tools

AWX

Ansible Tower

Git

Jinja2

Job description

# Expert Infrastructure As Code & Ansible* Home* Expert Infrastructure As Code & Ansible* June 17, 2026* 0 Comments* By Roberte OkoyaContext: The Infrastructure as Code (IaC) center of expertise, within the Cloud Solutions and Infrastructure teams, aims to increase its capacity. You will report to the manager of the Infrastructure and Server Solutions team within the group's IT department. You will work on structuring the service offering of this center of expertise, supporting the squads, and participating in the IT department's modernization program.MISSIONS: Support several squads in the industrialization of Ansible automation in an on-premises environment, including the implementation of standards and skills transfer to empower the teams. Essential technical skills: • Excellent command of Ansible: role design, collection creation, reusable playbooks, and structured inventories. Proficient management of variables, precedence, vaults, handlers, tags, and Jinja2 templates. Ability to structure an Ansible repository across multiple squads. • Industrialization: implementation of coding standards, naming conventions, repository structure, and versioning strategy. • Quality: proficiency in ansible-lint, (automated) testing methodologies, and code reviews. • CI/CD practices applied to Ansible. • Systems/Operations: Excellent knowledge of Linux environments, networking, security, middleware, and on-premises infrastructures. Strong ability to automate recurring administrative tasks • Security: secrets management, integration with a secrets vault (Vault) & adherence to the principle of least privilege Essential cross-functional skills • Ability to work in an industrialized environment and produce reusable standards • Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code practices • Experience in quality assurance, standardization, documentation, and knowledge transfer o Proficiency in the principles of: Git / GitOps, branch management / merge requests / code review & code quality/security o Excellent level of formalization: templates, standards, patterns, contribution guides & operational playbooks • Ability to work in a context of internal skills development and team empowermentDesired Skills • Experience with Windows targets via WinRM • Ability to invoke or integrate: o PowerShell o Shell o Python • Experience with AWX / Ansible Tower if relevant • Experience automating complex on-premises infrastructures Examples of Expected Deliverables • Standard Ansible framework/template • Standards for: role structure, naming, variable management, secrets & tests • Reference playbooks • Best practices guide • Skills transfer plan • Experience reports on supporting squads Essential Soft Skills • Pedagogy, ability to take on a coaching/facilitating role in addition to technical expertise • Listening and adapting to the maturity level of the squads • Analytical skills, good written and oral communication, ability to formalize • Ability to challenge without imposing • Results-oriented / pragmaticPlease send your CV, cover letter, and copies of your diplomas to [e-mail]