Senior Ansible Automation Engineer

Staffingine LLC; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Staffingine LLC is hiring a Senior DevOps Automation Engineer to join our client in St. Louis, MO, onsite five days a week.

The role focuses on Ansible, Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Jenkins, Python, and Linux automation to maintain and enhance production infrastructure. You will build safe, repeatable automation for patching, traffic draining, deployments, health checks, and recovery workflows, ensuring auditable and reliable production releases in mission-critical environments.

Qualifications

• Strong Ansible expertise and hands-on production automation experience.
• Experience with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Jenkins, Python, and Linux automation is required.
• Familiarity with traffic draining and patching workflows is a plus but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain advanced Ansible playbooks, roles, inventories, and orchestration workflows.
• Automate production server patching, maintenance, restarts, deployments, and recovery processes.
• Implement traffic-draining automation to safely remove servers from live traffic before maintenance.
• Integrate proxy/load balancer controls with patching, deployment, and restart workflows.
• Develop pre-checks, post-checks, health validations, rollback, and recovery procedures.
• Integrate Ansible with Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines.
• Use Git-based version control, automated testing, and audit controls.

Skills

Ansible Automation

CI/CD

Scripting

IaC

Production Operations

Job description

Staffingine LLC is excited to announce an excellent Contract / Fulltime opportunity with one of our top clients!

Position: Senior Ansible Automation Engineer

Location: St. Louis, MO – 5 Days Onsite (Non-Negotiable)

Duration: 6 Months Contract-to-Hire (CTH) – Conversion details to be confirmed

Note:

Strong Ansible expertise and hands‑on production automation experience are the primary selection criteria. Traffic‑draining experience is highly desirable, but specific F5, HAProxy, or NGINX experience is not mandatory.

Job Summary

• We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Automation Engineer with strong expertise in Ansible, Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Jenkins, Python, and Linux automation.
• The ideal candidate will have hands‑on experience automating production infrastructure maintenance, server patching, traffic draining, software deployments, system restarts, health checks, rollback, and recovery workflows.
• This role focuses on building safe, repeatable, and auditable automation solutions for mission‑critical production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain advanced Ansible playbooks, roles, inventories, and orchestration workflows.
• Automate production server patching, maintenance, restarts/IPL, software deployments, and recovery processes.
• Implement traffic‑draining automation to safely remove servers or application nodes from live traffic before maintenance.
• Integrate proxy/load balancer controls with patching, deployment, and restart workflows.
• Develop pre‑checks, post‑checks, health validations, rollback, and recovery procedures.
• Integrate Ansible automation with Jenkins and enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement Git‑based version control, automated testing, approval workflows, and audit controls.
• Work with Python, Bash, Linux scripting, REST APIs, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop operational runbooks and playbooks that operations teams can execute safely.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and operations teams to ensure reliable production releases.

Required Technical Skills

• Ansible Automation: Advanced Ansible, Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Playbooks, Roles, Inventories, and Orchestration.
• CI/CD: Jenkins, Pipeline Automation, and Deployment Workflows.
• Scripting: Python, Bash, and Linux Administration.
• Infrastructure Automation: Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Git, REST APIs, and Configuration Management.
• Production Operations: Automated Patching, Server Restarts, Maintenance, Traffic Draining, Health Checks, Rollback, and Recovery.

Good‑to‑Have Skills

• Experience with F5, HAProxy, NGINX, or other load balancers/proxy technologies.
• Network and application traffic‑draining automation.
• Policy‑based access control and enterprise change‑management integration.
• Experience in mission‑critical, high‑availability, or transaction‑processing environments.