Remote Senior AAP/Ansible Engineer for RHEL LEAPP Upgrades

Precision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Precision Technologies is seeking a Senior Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) Developer to support RHEL LEAPP upgrades. The role focuses on building sustainable automation, improving upgrade reliability, and reducing manual intervention, while troubleshooting failures across Linux and automation code.

The engineer will work on pre-upgrade checks, inhibitor remediation, and end-to-end automation reliability, collaborating with Linux Engineering to incorporate changes and ensure scalable,

Qualifikationen

• Experience building and sustaining Ansible/AAP automation for RHEL LEAPP upgrades.
• Strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration and upgrade tooling knowledge.
• Familiarity with automation testing, idempotency, and remediation workflows.

Aufgaben

• Develop, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance Ansible/AAP automation for RHEL LEAPP in-place upgrades.
• Continuously improve upgrade success rates toward zero-touch automated upgrades.
• Analyze failed or partially completed upgrades and determine root causes.
• Convert recurring manual remediation steps into Ansible automation and reusable roles.
• Pre-upgrade readiness checks
• Inhibitor detection and remediation
• Repository and package validation
• Disk-space and filesystem checks
• Kernel and boot configuration validation
• Failure recovery and rerun capabilities
• Improve automation resilience with robust error handling, retries, and logging
• Develop Python utilities/modules where Ansible alone is insufficient
• Maintain automation through Git and Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Automated testing/regression to protect upgrades
• Support production upgrade events and root-cause analysis
• Collaborate with Linux Engineering to adapt to changes

Kenntnisse

Ansible

AAP Automation

Python

RHEL

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

Jobbeschreibung

Precision Technologies is seeking a Senior Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) Developer to support RHEL LEAPP upgrades. The role focuses on building sustainable automation, improving upgrade reliability, and reducing manual intervention, while troubleshooting failures across Linux and automation code.

The engineer will work on pre-upgrade checks, inhibitor remediation, and end-to-end automation reliability, collaborating with Linux Engineering to incorporate changes and ensure scalable,