Junior Ansible/OpenShift Automation Engineer 100% remote

Calance, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 62,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Calance is seeking a Junior Ansible/OpenShift Automation Engineer to design, implement, and support air-gapped OpenShift environments. The role blends Ansible expertise with OpenShift implementation and other related topics, such as security-hardening (STIG/NIST) and the ability to automate Windows workloads via KubeVirt.

The successful candidate will work closely with Senior Ansible/OpenShift Automation Engineers, Platform Engineering, Security, and Network teams to deliver a secure,

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional IT experience; 1+ years focused on Ansible automation at enterprise scale.
• Experience with OpenShift Container Platform 4.x installation, upgrade, post-install configuration, and day-2 operations.
• U.S. citizenship required; strong communication and collaboration in remote teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain Ansible Collections, playbooks, roles, and modules for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• Engineer air-gapped OpenShift 4.x installations: repository mirroring, registry pull-through, and secure image management.
• Integrate Ansible with ACM and OpenShift GitOps to drive CI/CD.
• Build Helm v3 charts and GitOps manifests for enterprise apps.
• Provision Windows VM workloads via KubeVirt and perform post-provision hardening.
• Author runbooks, SOPs, and security checklists; troubleshoot stack issues.

Skills

Ansible automation

OpenShift 4.x

Python

PowerShell

Bash scripting

GitOps

KubeVirt

CI/CD tooling

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

OpenShift Container Platform

Kubernetes

PowerShell

Job description

Duration 7 Months

Start Date ASAP

Location remote, USA (Remote)

100% remote

Junior Ansible/OpenShift Automation Engineer

ID: 45156

We are seeking an Ansible/OpenShift Automation Engineer to design, implement, and support air-gapped, classified OpenShift Container Platform environments. The role blends Ansible expertise with OpenShift implementation and other related topics, such as security-hardening (STIG/NIST) and the ability to automate Windows workloads via KubeVirt. The successful candidate will work closely with Senior Ansible/OpenShift Automation Engineers, Platform Engineering, Security, and Network teams to deliver a secure, repeatable, and compliant container platform for mission-critical defense applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain reusable Ansible Collections, playbooks, roles, and custom modules for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)
• Engineer disconnected/air-gapped OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.x installations: repository mirroring, registry pull-through, Satellite/Content Delivery, and secure image management
• Integrate Ansible automation with OpenShift Advanced Cluster Management (ACM), OpenShift GitOps to drive end-to-end CI/CD
• Build and maintain Helm v3 charts and associated GitOps manifests for enterprise-grade applications
• Provision and configure Windows VM workloads via KubeVirt, including domain join, driver installation, and post-provision hardening (PowerShell/Ansible)
• Author comprehensive runbooks, SOPs, and technical documentation (Ansible docs, cluster diagrams, security checklists)
• Troubleshoot complex failures across the stack: Ansible playbook errors, OpenShift control-plane issues, networking (OVN-k, SR-IOV), storage (Ceph/ODF), and container runtime problems
• Develop system administration jobs and runbooks in Bash or Python

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to produce clear runbooks, SOPs, and compliance documentation
• Cooperative and collaborative experience with remote, distributed teams
• 2+ years of professional IT experience; 1+ years focused on Ansible automation at enterprise scale
• Experience with OpenShift Container Platform 4.x - installation, upgrade, post-install configuration, and day-2 operations
• Familiarity with deployment of OpenShift in mission critical environments
• Experience with a scripting language such as Python and Bash or PowerShell; comfortable writing custom Ansible modules and CLI tools
• Experience with Helm v3 chart development and management in GitOps workflows
• Familiarity with KubeVirt, Windows VM provisioning, and virtualization drivers
• Familiarity with bare-metal provisioning, networking, and storage
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools: Argo CD, GitOps Operator, OpenShift Pipelines, Jenkins/GitLab
• Experience with Automation orchestration tools such as Rundeck
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent professional experience preferred
• U.S. citizenship required

Pay Range - 45-55/hr/hr

About Calance

Calance is a global IT Services firm specializing in end-to-end solutions for Development, Managed Service, Security, SAP, Project Control Integration and IT Staffing.Operating in the United States and India, Calance helps clients bring their ideas and strategies to life through talent, technology and tenacity.

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