Lead Systems Engineer

Jobtailor; Dublin (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior DevOps engineer to lead automation efforts, build and maintain Ansible playbooks, and improve CI/CD pipelines across environments. You will enable developers through self-service tooling and guardrails to reduce manual work.

The role emphasizes strong troubleshooting across distributed systems, MySQL experience, and excellent communication to coordinate with multiple stakeholders. A proactive approach to incident resolution and platform upgrades is required.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of RedHat Linux server administration experience.
• 6+ years of Ansible scripting/automation experience.
• 6+ years of Bash and Python scripting experience.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong troubleshooting across distributed systems (infrastructure, app, DB, network).
• Experience with MySQL; PostgreSQL is a plus.
• Excellent communication and ability to lead through planning and influence.
• Proven ability to manage multiple requests and deliver reliably under deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Lead automation initiatives to eliminate repetitive tasks and reduce toil.
• Build and maintain Ansible automation to provision environments and keep them updated.
• Propose and lead platform improvement projects using Ansible, Rundeck, and CI/CD tools.
• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines with safe rollout/rollback strategies.
• Create reusable tooling, templates, and self-service workflows to reduce manual work.
• Improve delivery quality with automated testing, deployment validation, and reliable environments.
• Improve observability across services and infrastructure (monitoring, logs, alerts, tracing).
• Lead incident analysis and RCAs across infra, app, DB, and network layers; drive prevention.

Skills

RedHat Linux

Ansible

Bash

Python

CI/CD

Troubleshooting

MySQL

Postgres

Communication

Leadership

Stakeholders

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead automation initiatives that eliminate repetitive tasks and reduce operational toil
• Build and maintain Ansible automation to provision new environments and keep existing environments up to date
• Propose and lead platform improvement projects using tools such as Ansible, Rundeck, and CI/CD systems
• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation with safe rollout/rollback strategies and clear environment promotion
• Enable developers through reusable “paved road” tooling: templates, golden pipelines, self‑service workflows, and guardrails that reduce manual work and tribal knowledge
• Partner with engineering teams to improve delivery quality through: automated integration and regression testing, deployment validation and smoke testing, reliable and repeatable test/pre‑production environments, quality gates that catch issues earlier
• Improve observability across services and infrastructure (monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing), including visibility into deployment outcomes and failures
• Lead analysis and resolution of production incidents across infrastructure, application, database, and network layers; drive RCAs and prevention work
• Oversee platform patching and upgrades; plan, schedule, and monitor maintenance tasks
• Coordinate and implement server/platform changes required by customers and internal teams
• Document systems and processes, transfer knowledge, and mentor engineers to raise technical standards across the organization
• Communicate proactively with stakeholders, manage multiple requests, and prioritize work effectively

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) or equivalent professional experience
• 6+ years of RedHat Linux server administration experience, including production troubleshooting and log triage
• 6+ years of extensive Ansible scripting and automation experience (or equivalent configuration management)
• 6+ years of scripting experience in Bash and Python
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems (infrastructure, application, database, and network layers)
• Strong working knowledge of MySQL (query language required); Postgres experience is a plus
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to lead through planning, prioritization, and influence
• Proven ability to context switch, manage multiple stakeholder requests, and deliver reliably under deadlines