Automation & Observability Engineer

HCLTech; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

HCLTech is seeking an Automation & Observability Engineer to manage disaster recovery and automation for banking apps using Ansible Automation Platform and orchestrator expertise.

Responsibilities include automating consistency checks, creating test job templates, and validating disaster recovery scenarios with strong focus on Windows, AIX, and RHEL environments.

Qualifications

• 4-8+ years in Infrastructure/Platform/SRE/DevOps roles (or equivalent).
• Strong hands-on Ansible (playbooks/roles/collections).
• Proficiency in Python, Bash/ksh, and PowerShell (production-grade scripts).
• Administration across Windows Server, AIX, and RHEL.
• Proven ELK (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana) and Grafana ingestion, parsing, and dashboarding.
• Experience with APIs, webhooks, and data integrations; JSON/YAML fluency.
• Git, CI/CD basics, change management, and documentation best practices.
• Strong troubleshooting across network, OS, application, and logging layers.

Responsibilities

• Develop & maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections for Windows, AIX, and RHEL.
• Manage MSSQL, Oracle, DB2, and Teradata databases plus WAS and MQ middleware.
• Use Jinja2 templating and Ansible Vault; manage secrets/integrations (Git, Bitbucket, CI/CD).
• Orchestration and bug fixing responsibility.
• Develop attractive dashboards with ELK and Grafana.

Skills

Ansible

Python

Bash/ksh

PowerShell

Windows Server

AIX

RHEL

ELK

Grafana

REST APIs

JSON/YAML

Git

CI/CD

ITSM ServiceNow

Kibana

Tools

Ansible Automation Platform

Jinja2

Ansible Vault

Git

Bitbucket

CI/CD

Kibana

Grafana

Job description

Automation & Observability Engineer (Ansible / Python / Windows-AIX-RHEL / ELK &, Grafana)

Role Purpose

This role manages disaster recovery and automation for banking applications, utilizing Ansible Automation Platform and Orchestrator expertise. Key tasks include automating consistency checks, creating job templates for test cases, and validating disaster recovery scenarios.

Key Responsibilities

Automation & Development,

• Develop & maintain Ansible Automation Platform playbooks, roles, and collections for Windows, AIX, and RHEL, Databases (MSSQL, Oracle, DB2, & Terradata), Middleware (WAS, MQ)
• Use Jinja2 templating and Ansible Vault; manage secrets/integrations (e.g., Git, Bitbucket, CI/CD).
• Orchestration and bug fixing responsibility
• Developing attractive Dashboard (ELK, Grafana,)

Scripting & Tooling

• Develop utilities in Python (CLI tools, API clients, data parsers) and shell scripts (Bash/ksh) & PowerShell for Windows automation.
• Implement robust logging, error handling, and unit tests for scripts; package/reuse where applicable (venv, pip, modules).

Integrations

• Integrate monitoring & automation with ITSM (e.g., ServiceNow) for incident/change/problem workflows.
• Develop REST API integrations and webhooks (e.g., Ansible Tower callbacks, /Kibana alert webhooks), GTM, Infoblox, F5..
• Partner with security for SIEM feeds, audit requirements, and regulatory retention.

Required Qualifications

• 4-8+ years in Infrastructure/Platform/SRE/DevOps roles (or equivalent experience).
• Strong hands-on Ansible (playbooks/roles/collections)
• Proficiency in Python, Bash/ksh, and PowerShell (production-grade scripts).
• Administration experience across Windows Server, AIX, and RHEL.
• Proven ELK (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana) and Grafana ingestion, parsing, and dashboarding.
• Experience with APIs, webhooks, and data integrations; JSON/YAML fluency.
• Git, CI/CD basics, change management, and documentation best practices.
• Strong troubleshooting across network, OS, application, and logging layers.

Preferred / Nice to Have

• Certifications: RHCSA/RHCE,
• Experience with ServiceNow (events/incidents/CMDB), Satellite, BigFix, Tanium, AppDynamics/Dynatrace/Prometheus, Grafana.
• Containers and cloud basics (Docker, Kubernetes, OCI- Oracle Cloud Infra) are a plus.
• Infrastructure knowledge of vRO, vCDA, vSphere,
• Orchestrator knowledge vRo, airflow, Control-m
• RHEL: systemd, SELinux, firewalld, networking, storage, users/groups, dnf/yum, kernel tuning; Satellite/Spacewalk (nice to have).
• AIX: LPAR basics, smitty, nim concepts, filesystem/LVM, packaging (installp, rpm.rte) and ksh scripting.
• Windows Server: AD integration, services, scheduled tasks, PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) (nice to have), Eventing, WMI, IIS logs.