Automation Engineer

High Tech Genesis; University City (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

High Tech Genesis is seeking an experienced DevOps/Automation Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable automation for mission-critical environments. You will implement Ansible playbooks, integrate CI/CD with Jenkins, and ensure secure, auditable operations across production systems.

You will collaborate with BizOps and engineering teams to enforce best practices in IaC, source control, and automated validation while improving reliability and deployment speed in a fast-paced enterprise

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform.
• 5+ years in Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD orchestration.
• 5+ years of Python and Linux scripting.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Git-based workflows, and API integration.
• Experience automating high-risk production maintenance and recovery procedures.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and orchestration workflows.
• Integrate proxy controls with patching, IPL/restart, and software-release processes.
• Build pre-checks, post-checks, health validation, rollback, and manual fallback procedures.
• Integrate automation with Jenkins and enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply source control, testing, approval, promotion, access control, and audit standards to automation.
• Produce operational playbooks that BizOps can execute safely.

Skills

Ansible

CI/CD orchestration (Jenkins)

Python scripting

Linux scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Git workflows

API integration

Production maintenance & recovery

Tools

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Mission: Automate traffic draining, maintenance, patching, software deployment, validation, and recovery workflows so operations are safe, repeatable, and auditable.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and orchestration workflows.
• Integrate proxy controls with patching, IPL/restart, and software-release processes.
• Build pre-checks, post-checks, health validation, rollback, and manual fallback procedures.
• Integrate automation with Jenkins and enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply source control, testing, approval, promotion, access control, and audit standards to automation.
• Produce operational playbooks that BizOps can execute safely.

Required Skills

• Advanced Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform experience.
• 5+ years in Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD orchestration.
• 5+ years of Python and Linux scripting.
• Infrastructure as Code, Git-based workflows, and API integration.
• Experience automating high-risk production maintenance and recovery procedures.

Preferred Skills

• Network and application traffic drain automation.
• Policy-based access control and enterprise change-management integration.
• Mission-critical infrastructure or transaction-processing environments.