Platform Automation Engineer: Master Ansible & Chef

Fulcrum Digital; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Fulcrum Digital is seeking a Platform Engineer to own configuration management and automation across our Linux and Windows estate, working hands-on with Ansible and Chef. You will automate provisioning, hardening, patching and deployments, integrate configuration management into CI/CD pipelines, and help enforce compliance-as-code standards.

You will also mentor other engineers, support migrations between automation platforms, and drive secure, scalable infrastructure for global clients across

Qualifications

• Excellent written and spoken English.
• 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps or platform engineering.
• Hands-on with Ansible and Chef in production (3+ years).
• Experience with CI/CD tools and infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities

• Design, write and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles and collections for provisioning and configuration.
• Develop and maintain Chef cookbooks, recipes and policies, and manage Chef Infra Server and Chef Automate.
• Automate OS builds, hardening, patching and deployments across Linux and Windows estates.
• Manage inventories, environments and secrets securely with vaults and data bags.
• Run Ansible AWX/Tower job templates, workflows and RBAC.
• Integrate configuration management into CI/CD pipelines with automated testing.
• Enforce CIS benchmarks and compliance-as-code to support audits (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001).
• Provision cloud and on-prem infrastructure with Terraform.
• Support migrations between Chef and Ansible and across platform versions.
• Troubleshoot drift, failed runs and incidents; write runbooks and mentor engineers.

Skills

English proficiency

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Documentation

Tools

Ansible

Chef

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

AWS

GCP

VMware

Job description

Fulcrum Digital is seeking a Platform Engineer to own configuration management and automation across our Linux and Windows estate, working hands-on with Ansible and Chef. You will automate provisioning, hardening, patching and deployments, integrate configuration management into CI/CD pipelines, and help enforce compliance-as-code standards.

You will also mentor other engineers, support migrations between automation platforms, and drive secure, scalable infrastructure for global clients across