Senior Automation Engineer with Ansible

First Soft Solutions LLC; Woodlawn (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

First Soft Solutions LLC in Maryland seeks a senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise automation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for AWS infrastructure and Linux environments.

The role requires 10+ years IT experience, hands-on Ansible/AAP, AWS CloudFormation, Linux (RHEL), Python, and CI/CD expertise, with on-site work five days/week and in-person interview.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of IT experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Ansible including production-grade playbooks, roles, collections, templates.
• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) administration and development.
• Experience designing, provisioning, configuring, and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience developing AWS CloudFormation templates.
• Experience using Ansible to provision and manage AWS resources.
• Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure (VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, IAM).
• Strong Linux systems administration and engineering experience (RHEL).
• Experience with Linux patching, packaging, authentication, networking, storage, SELinux, and firewalls.
• Proficiency with Python for infra automation, scripting, APIs.
• 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/patch management.
• Experience with Linux identity technologies (Red Hat IdM/FreeIPA).
• Ability to independently own complex technical assignments with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise automation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• Develop Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, templates, job templates, and workflows for Linux and AWS infrastructure.
• Develop automation for AWS networking, compute, storage, security and supporting services.
• Administer AAP inventories, credentials, RBAC, organizations, job templates, workflows, execution environments, and Ansible Builder.
• Automate Linux provisioning, configuration management, patching, security hardening, authentication, networking, storage, SELinux and firewall management.
• Integrate Red Hat Satellite with Linux management and automation workflows.
• Build and customize containerized execution environments.
• Develop automated tests and integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop patch-management automation using AWS Systems Manager.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Ansible

Ansible Automation Platform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS

Red Hat Satellite

Red Hat IdM/FreeIPA

Python

CI/CD

Containerized environments

RHEL

Git

Job description

• Bachelor's degree and 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 (AAP), including administration and development
• Experience designing, provisioning, configuring, and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure
• Hands-on experience developing AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks
• Experience using Ansible or similar automation tools to provision and manage AWS resources
• Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, IAM, compute, storage, and related services
• Strong Linux systems administration and engineering experience, preferably with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Experience with Linux patching, package management, authentication, networking, storage, SELinux, and firewalls
• 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/patch management
• Experience with Linux identity and authentication technologies such as Red Hat IdM/FreeIPA
• Ability to independently own complex technical assignments with minimal supervision

Onsite: 5 Days/Week

Interview: In-Person

Key Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 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 (AAP), including administration and development
• Strong AWS engineering experience
• Experience designing, provisioning, configuring, and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure
• Hands-on experience developing AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks
• Experience using Ansible or similar automation tools to provision and manage AWS resources
• Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, IAM, compute, storage, and related services
• Strong Linux systems administration and engineering experience, preferably with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Experience with Linux patching, package management, authentication, networking, storage, SELinux, and firewalls
• 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/patch management
• Experience with Linux identity and authentication technologies such as Red Hat IdM/FreeIPA
• Ability to independently own complex technical assignments with minimal supervision

Preferred Experience

• AWS Systems Manager and patch-management automation
• STIG implementation, remediation, or compliance validation
• FIPS-enabled environments
• Large-scale enterprise Linux and AWS environments
• Federal government, regulated, or security-sensitive environments
• Red Hat, Ansible, Linux, Python, or AWS certifications

Additional Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise automation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• Develop Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, templates, job templates, and workflows for Linux and AWS infrastructure.
• Develop automation for AWS networking, compute, storage, security and supporting services.
• Administer AAP inventories, credentials, RBAC, organizations, job templates, workflows, execution environments, and Ansible Builder.
• Automate Linux provisioning, configuration management, patching, security hardening, authentication, networking, storage, SELinux and firewall management.
• Integrate Red Hat Satellite with Linux management and automation workflows.
• Build and customize containerized execution environments.
• Develop automated tests and integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop patch-management automation using AWS Systems Manager.