Ansible Automation Engineer

VMC Soft Technologies, Inc; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

VMC Soft Technologies, Inc. seeks an IT automation specialist to design, develop, and maintain Ansible playbooks for OpenShift deployments, driving automation across environments.

You will integrate Ansible with Jenkins, GitLab and ServiceNow, standardize configurations, and guide engineering teams in automation best practices. Strong communication and collaboration are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Experience automating deployments with Ansible in OpenShift environments.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
• Familiarity with ITSM tools like ServiceNow.
• Excellent communication and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections.
• Standardize configuration management across environments.
• Convert manual tasks into Ansible-based automation.
• Integrate Ansible with Jenkins, CI/CD, GitLab, and ServiceNow.

Skills

Ansible

OpenShift

CI/CD

Jenkins

Git

GitLab

ServiceNow

Automation

Configuration management

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

ServiceNow

Job description

Job Requirements and Responsibilities

Job Requirements:

Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles to automate deployment, configuration, and management of applications on OpenShift. Must have expertise in understanding of Ansible/Ansible Automation Platform. Must integrate Ansible Automation Platform with existing CI /CD pipelines to improve deployment efficiency. Must provide support and guidance to engineering teams on the use of Ansible for automating tasks in the OpenShift environment. Must have experience with CI/CI‑Deployment & Management using technologies such as Jenkins, Git, GitLab or other comparable tools. Must possess knowledge of ITSM tools like ServiceNow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles and collections.
• Standardize configuration management across all environments.
• Convert manual operational tasks into Ansible‑based automation.
• Integrate Ansible with Jenkins, CI/CD, GitLab and ServiceNow.

Job Qualifications & Skills

• Domain: IT – Infrastructure
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication
• Team collaboration
• Documentation and knowledge sharing
• Education Requirements: Optional
• Certifications: Optional

Sample Questions for Training Model

Technical

• Which Ansible modules are used for patching RHEL/CentOS systems?
• How do you reboot a system using Ansible?
• How do you ensure Ansible waits until the server comes back after reboot?
• What is the use of serial in playbook?
• How do you handle errors and failures in Ansible playbook?
• Production has 50 servers. How do you patch them with zero downtime?
• A server did not come back after reboot. How do you troubleshoot?

Coding

• Write a sample playbook for stop/start of server.
• Write a sample playbook for SSL cert renewal.