Senior Automation Engineer – Ansible & DevOps

Apexon; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Apexon in St. Louis, MO is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead automation initiatives across patching, deployment, validation, and recovery workflows.

You will build and maintain Ansible playbooks, integrate with Jenkins, and ensure safe, auditable operations in production. Applicants should have 6+ years in automation or DevOps, strong scripting in Python and Linux, and experience with IaC and API integration.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with Ansible and automation platforms.
• Experience with production maintenance automation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and orchestration workflows.
• Integrate proxy controls with patching, IPL/restart, and software-release processes.
• Build pre-checks, post-checks, health validation, rollback, and manual fallback procedures.
• Integrate automation with Jenkins and enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply source control, testing, approval, promotion, access-control, and audit standards to automation.
• Produce operational playbooks that BizOps can execute safely.

Skills

Advanced Ansible

Python scripting

Linux scripting

Infrastructure as Code

API integration

Git workflows

CI/CD automation

High-risk maintenance automation

Education

Tools

Ansible Automation Platform

Jenkins

Git

REST APIs

Job description

Headcount

2

Seniority

Senior engineer, ordinarily 6 or more years of relevant automation or DevOps experience.

Mission:

Automate traffic draining, maintenance, patching, software deployment, validation, and recovery workflows so operations are safe, repeatable, and auditable.

Core responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and orchestration workflows.
• Integrate proxy controls with patching, IPL/restart, and software-release processes.
• Build pre-checks, post-checks, health validation, rollback, and manual fallback procedures.
• Integrate automation with Jenkins and enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply source control, testing, approval, promotion, access-control, and audit standards to automation.
• Produce operational playbooks that BizOps can execute safely.

Required skills

• Advanced Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform experience.
• Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD orchestration.
• Python and Linux scripting.
• Infrastructure as Code, Git-based workflows, and API integration.
• Experience automating high-risk production maintenance and recovery procedures.

Preferred experience

• Network and application traffic-drain automation.
• Policy-based access control and enterprise change-management integration.
• Mission-critical infrastructure or transaction-processing environments.