Senior Ansible Automation Platform Engineer (Remote)

NewGen Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NewGen Technologies is seeking a Sr. Consultant with deep RHEL and Ansible expertise to lead automation of OS security patching for a financial services client. You will design and implement CI/CD components to accelerate patching schedules and document the future-state upgrade workflow.

This remote US role requires 10+ years of hands-on experience, strong Python skills, and the ability to facilitate technical workshops, coordinate with vendor teams, and report progress to executives.

Qualifications

• Proven 10+ years of experience with RHEL deployments, hardening, and operations.
• Proven understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automation to accelerate deployment timelines.
• Strong proficiency in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and building automation workflows.
• Understanding of Kpatch and applicable use cases.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Ability to facilitate technical workshops and lead architectural decision-making.
• Experience in creating technical documentation and knowledge-base assets.
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities, including coordination with vendor engineering teams.
• Experience in managing technical scope and communicating progress to executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Architecture Design: conduct solutions design sessions to identify upgrade pain points.
• Automation & Execution: develop automation to improve the speed and reliability of kernel/OS config snapshots; investigate Kpatch opportunities; develop and refine automation playbooks; execute patching/upgrade workflow; refine automation for diverse system types.
• Validation & Documentation: create and maintain a standard RHEL patching/upgrade workflow; build a knowledge-base for the in-place upgrade process.
• Technical Oversight & Facilitation: facilitate workshops to fill knowledge gaps; identify beta users and test the upgrade process at scale; provide weekly status reports to the Project Manager.

Skills

RHEL expertise

CI/CD

Ansible/AAP

Python

Workshop facilitation

Documentation

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Kpatch

Job description

NewGen Technologies is seeking a Sr. Consultant with deep RHEL and Ansible expertise to lead automation of OS security patching for a financial services client. You will design and implement CI/CD components to accelerate patching schedules and document the future-state upgrade workflow.

This remote US role requires 10+ years of hands-on experience, strong Python skills, and the ability to facilitate technical workshops, coordinate with vendor teams, and report progress to executives.