Senior Automation Engineer — Ansible, AWS & Linux (Onsite)

4A Consulting, LLC; Woodlawn (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

4A Consulting, LLC, headquartered in Baltimore, MD, seeks a Senior Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain enterprise automation on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, AWS, and Linux ecosystems. The role emphasizes provisioning, configuration management, patching, security hardening, and lifecycle management across cloud and on-prem environments.

Ideal candidates will translate requirements into scalable automation, partner with cross-functional teams, and own deployments from

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant IT experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Ansible, including production-grade playbooks, roles, collections, templates, and reusable automation.
• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, including both administration and development.
• Strong AWS engineering experience with the ability to design, provision, configure, and troubleshoot AWS infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience developing AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks.
• Experience using Ansible or similar automation technologies to provision and manage AWS resources.
• Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure concepts, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, IAM, compute, and storage.
• Strong Linux systems administration and engineering experience, preferably with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Proficiency with Python for infrastructure automation, scripting, APIs, and integrations.
• Experience with source control, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and unit testing.
• Experience building and maintaining containerized execution environments.
• Experience with Red Hat Satellite and Linux lifecycle and patch management.
• Experience with Linux identity and authentication technologies such as Red Hat IdM/FreeIPA.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise automation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP).
• Develop production-grade Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, templates, job templates, and workflows for Linux and AWS infrastructure.
• Design and develop AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks to provision and manage AWS infrastructure.
• Develop automation for AWS services and infrastructure, including VPCs, networking, compute, storage, security, and supporting services.
• Integrate Ansible with AWS-native technologies to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Develop Python scripts and supporting code for infrastructure automation, APIs, integrations, and operational workflows.
• Administer and maintain Ansible Automation Platform, including inventories, credentials, RBAC, organizations, job templates, workflows, execution environments, and Ansible Builder.
• Develop automation supporting Linux provisioning, configuration management, patching, security hardening, authentication, networking, storage, SELinux, and firewall management.
• Administer and integrate Red Hat Satellite with Linux management and automation workflows.
• Support Linux identity and authentication technologies, including Red Hat IdM/FreeIPA.
• Build and customize containerized execution environments and baseline images.
• Develop automated and unit tests for automation code and integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop and support patch-management automation using technologies such as AWS Systems Manager (SSM).
• Troubleshoot complex automation and infrastructure issues across AWS, Linux, networking, authentication, storage, security, and application dependencies.
• Evaluate technical requirements, identify dependencies, develop appropriate solutions, and drive assignments from conception through production implementation.
• Develop reusable automation frameworks and standards to improve operational consistency, reliability, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, security, development, and operations teams to implement enterprise automation solutions.

Skills

Ansible

AWS

Python

Linux

CI/CD

Automation

Tools

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

AWS CloudFormation

Red Hat Satellite

Ansible Builder

Job description

4A Consulting, LLC, headquartered in Baltimore, MD, seeks a Senior Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain enterprise automation on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, AWS, and Linux ecosystems. The role emphasizes provisioning, configuration management, patching, security hardening, and lifecycle management across cloud and on-prem environments.

Ideal candidates will translate requirements into scalable automation, partner with cross-functional teams, and own deployments from