UNIX RHEL Ansible/AAP Automation Developer

Precision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Precision Technologies is seeking a Senior Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) Developer to support RHEL LEAPP upgrades. The role focuses on building sustainable automation, improving upgrade reliability, and reducing manual intervention, while troubleshooting failures across Linux and automation code.

The engineer will work on pre-upgrade checks, inhibitor remediation, and end-to-end automation reliability, collaborating with Linux Engineering to incorporate changes and ensure scalable,

Qualifications

• Experience building and sustaining Ansible/AAP automation for RHEL LEAPP upgrades.
• Strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration and upgrade tooling knowledge.
• Familiarity with automation testing, idempotency, and remediation workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance Ansible/AAP automation for RHEL LEAPP in-place upgrades.
• Continuously improve upgrade success rates toward zero-touch automated upgrades.
• Analyze failed or partially completed upgrades and determine root causes.
• Convert recurring manual remediation steps into Ansible automation and reusable roles.
• Pre-upgrade readiness checks
• Inhibitor detection and remediation
• Repository and package validation
• Disk-space and filesystem checks
• Kernel and boot configuration validation
• Failure recovery and rerun capabilities
• Improve automation resilience with robust error handling, retries, and logging
• Develop Python utilities/modules where Ansible alone is insufficient
• Maintain automation through Git and Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Automated testing/regression to protect upgrades
• Support production upgrade events and root-cause analysis
• Collaborate with Linux Engineering to adapt to changes

Skills

Ansible

AAP Automation

Python

RHEL

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

Job description

Location: remote

Duration: 1 year

Senior Ansible / AAP Automation Developer, RHEL LEAPP

Role Summary

Seeking an experienced Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) developer with strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration skills to support and continually enhance automated RHEL in-place upgrades using Red Hat LEAPP.

This is a sustaining engineering role responsible for improving the reliability, scalability, and functionality of the upgrade automation, with the objective of driving upgrades toward 100% successful completion without manual intervention.

The engineer must be capable of troubleshooting failures across both the Linux operating system and automation code, identifying recurring failure patterns, and developing permanent automated remediation rather than relying on operational workarounds.

Core Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance Ansible/AAP automation for RHEL LEAPP in-place upgrades.
• Continuously improve upgrade success rates with a goal of fully automated, zero-touch upgrades.
• Analyze failed or partially completed upgrades and determine the underlying technical cause.
• Convert recurring manual remediation steps into Ansible automation and reusable roles.
  • Pre-upgrade readiness checks
• Inhibitor detection and remediation
• Repository and package validation
• Disk-space and filesystem checks
• Kernel and boot configuration validation
• Failure recovery and rerun capabilities
• Improve automation resilience, including error handling, retry logic, idempotency, logging, exception handling, and recovery from partially completed workflows.
• Develop and maintain Python utilities/modules where Ansible alone is insufficient.
• Maintain automation through Git-based source control and Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Develop automated testing and regression capabilities to ensure changes do not introduce failures in previously successful upgrade scenarios.
• Support production upgrade events and perform root-cause analysis of automation and RHEL/LEAPP failures.
• Work closely with Linux Engineering to incorporate new scenarios, exceptions, application requirements, and RHEL changes into the automation.