Ansible Consultant

Insight Global; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Consultant specializing in Red Hat Ansible to join our team. The ideal candidate will write, test, and troubleshoot complex Ansible playbooks for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation, with a deep understanding of Ansible concepts and architecture.

Responsibilities center on infrastructure automation across virtual machines, cloud instances, and containers, employing idempotent, agentless designs and modular playbooks.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of direct and extensive Ansible experience.
• Experience writing, testing, and troubleshooting complex Ansible playbooks.
• Strong understanding of idempotency, agentless architecture, and how modules, playbooks, collections and inventories function together.
• Experience automating infrastructure resources across virtual machines, cloud instances, and containers.
• Broad understanding of general automation principles including workflow orchestration, data integration, scalability, security considerations, and modular design.
• Familiarity with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) for job scheduling, GUI dashboards, access control, and workflow management.

Skills

Ansible Core Content Creation

Ansible concepts understanding

Infrastructure automation

Automation principles

AAP familiarity

Job description

Job Description

A client of Insight Global is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Consultant specializing in Red Hat Ansible to join our dynamic team. This role requires deep expertise in Ansible Core content creation, including the ability to write, test, and troubleshoot complex playbooks for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation. The ideal candidate will possess a comprehensive understanding of Ansible concepts, such as idempotency, agentless architecture, and the interplay between modules, playbooks, collections, and inventories. They should be adept at structuring automation using roles, managing data with variables and facts, handling secrets and templates, and ensuring secure and efficient deployments. A strong background in infrastructure automation is essential, with hands-on experience automating virtual machines, cloud instances, and containers. In addition, the candidate should demonstrate a broad grasp of general automation principles, including workflow orchestration, exception handling, data integration, scalability, and modular design. Familiarity with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) is a plus, particularly in areas such as job scheduling, GUI dashboards, access control, and workflow management.

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Skills and Requirements

5-7+ years of direct and extensive Ansible experience with expertise in the following areas:

• Ansible Core Content Creation: Experience in actually creating content for Ansible Core. Ability to write, test, and troubleshoot complex Ansible playbooks for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation.

• Ansible Concept Understanding: A thorough understanding of the concepts of Ansible. Understanding Ansible concepts means grasping its core principles like idempotency, agentless architecture, and how components such as modules, playbooks, collections and inventories function together. It involves knowing how to structure automation using roles, manage data with variables, facts, use of repositories, manage secrets and templates, and effectively troubleshoot and secure deployments.

• Infrastructure Automation Experience: Proven experience with automating infrastructure resources. This can span for either virtual machines, cloud instances and/or containers.

• Broad Automation Principles: Having a broad understanding of general automation principles means grasping the fundamental concepts that apply across various automation technologies and domains, not just Ansible. This includes knowing about concepts like workflow orchestration, exception handling, data integration, scalability, security considerations in automated processes, and the importance of reusability and modularity in automation design.

• Introductory Knowledge of AAP: Familiarity with or experience using Ansible Automation Platform for job scheduling, GUI dashboards, access control, and workflow management. Does not have to be extensive.