Jnr Ansible Operations Engineer

Mediro ICT Recruitment; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Mediro ICT Recruitment is seeking a Systems Engineer to manage operating system and Ansible Automation Platform lifecycle, focusing on stability, performance, and cost optimization. This is a long-term fixed contract of 3 years on a hybrid model in South Africa.

You will create and manage IaC with Terraform, work with GitHub, track Jira stories, support security/change incidents, and ensure documentation is up to date.

Qualifications

• Degree in Information Systems or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform.
• Experience with Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu/SLES).
• Scripting in Bash/PowerShell.
• Cloud experience (AWS/Azure).
• ITIL and Scrum experience.
• 2+ years in configuration management and automation.
• 2+ years ITIL experience.
• 2+ years Scrum experience.

Responsibilities

• Create, manage and operate IaC with Terraform.
• Perform OS and Ansible lifecycle management.
• Interact with Enterprise GitHub for version control and branching strategy.
• Track Jira user stories to meet due dates.
• Ensure stability and adherence to Operations standards.
• Maintain knowledge base content and documentation.
• Manage security vulnerabilities.
• Willing to standby and work on weekends if needed.
• Keep documentation up to date in relevant systems.
• Attend and moderate operation meetings.

Skills

Ansible Core

Ansible Automation Platform

Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu)

Terraform

Bash & PowerShell scripting

ITIL awareness

Scrum practices

Education

Degree in Information Systems

Tools

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Job description

Job Overview

We are looking for a Systems Engineer that can perform operating system and Ansible Automation Platform lifecycle management. You will need to perform housekeeping/monitoring/managing of the Ansible Automation Platform focusing on stability/performance as well as cost optimization.

This is a long-term fixed contract of 3-years (Renewable & Ongoing) working on a Hybrid model.

Responsibilities

• Create, manage and operate IaC with Terraform
• Perform operating system and Ansible Automation Platform lifecycle management
• Interact with Enterprise GitHub for version control and Git branching strategy
• Track and update Jira user stories to ensure due dates are met
• Assist to ensure stability of systems and adherence of the team to the Group’s Operations standards.
• Ensure quality and up to date content of the knowledge base for the sub-product
• Ensure quality and up to date content of the Sub-Product and compliance required documentation
• Perform housekeeping/monitoring/managing of the Ansible Automation Platform focusing on stability/performance as well as cost optimization.
• Manage Problem, Incident and Change process for dedicated ITSM service
• Willing to do standby and work on weekends if needed
• Keep documentation up to date in all relevant systems (e.g. as is configuration CMDB/Application Instance Wizard, to be configuration Connect IT, knowledge database resolveIT)
• Attend and moderate operation meetings
• Manage security vulnerabilities

Qualifications / Experience

• Degree in Information Systems or equivalent experience
• Experience with Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform (or Ansible Tower/AWX)
• Experience with Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, SLES)
• Experience with coding and scripting (Bash, PowerShell etc) (Advantageous)
• Experience with Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure)
• Experience with Red Hat Satellite (Advantageous)
• Any Linux certification such as RHCSA (Advantageous)
• ITIL certification (Advantageous)
• Minimum of 2 years of configuration management and automation experience
• Minimum of 2 years of ITIL work experience
• Minimum of 2 years of Scrum work experience
• Minimum of 2 years of operating system administration work experience

Minimum Skills

• Knowledge of Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket/GitHub
• Knowledge of Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform/Ansible Tower
• Basic knowledge of framework Agile Working Model
• Basic knowledge of Virtualisation technologies such as VMWare
• Basic knowledge of Private Cloud solutions
• Basic knowledge of Windows Server
• Basic knowledge of Dynatrace
• Basic knowledge of Splunk
• Basic knowledge of containerization technologies such as podman, Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift
• Basic knowledge of Directory Access Manager (DIVA)
• Basic knowledge of Intelligent Storage Orchestration Environment (iStore) and Active Directory Gruppentool (ADGR)
• Basic knowledge of ITIL and ITSM such as Problem-Incident-Change processes
• Basic knowledge of ITSM Suite
• Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter

Additional Skills

• Experience with Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform (or Ansible Tower/AWX)
• Experience with Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, SLES)
• Experience with coding and scripting (Bash, PowerShell etc) (Advantageous)
• Experience with Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure)
• Experience with version control systems (GitHub) (Advantageous)
• Experience with IaC technologies (Terraform) (Advantageous)
• Experience with GitOps (Advantageous)
• Experience with ServiceNow (Advantageous)
• Experience with Dynatrace (Advantageous)
• Experience with SIEM technologies such as Splunk (Advantageous)
• Experience with Red Hat Satellite (Advantageous)
• Any Linux certification such as RHCSA (Advantageous)
• ITIL certification (Advantageous)
• Any Scrum certification (Advantageous)

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