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Senior Automation Engineer - Linux

American Unit, Inc
Durham, NC Contractor
POSTED ON 10/24/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/21/2026

The role involves creating and maintaining Ansible playbooks, troubleshooting automation issues, ensuring consistent and reliable deployments across environments, and collaborating with DevOps and application teams to enhance CI/CD workflows. Strong knowledge of Linux, Ansible Tower/AWX, YAML, automation best practices, and infrastructure-as-code principles is required. Experience with debugging deployments, validating configurations, and improving release reliability is aplus.

The position will work with IT management to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuous integration and Continuous deployment (CI/CD) of application changes. This position will interact with the architects, developers, deployment Team, and Database Administrators to ensure automation of various tasks.


Required Skills:

  • 7 years of experience automating Linux OS patches and upgrades using Ansible.
  • 7 years of experience automating build and deployment processes, including database changes.
  • 7 years of experience with Python, Bash, or Shell scripting.
  • 4 years of experience with Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
  • 3 years of experience with Git or Bitbucket, including branching and merging.
  • 2 years of experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • 2 years of experience developing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, TeamCity, or Ansible.
  • Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure and software release life cycles.
  • Experience with Ansible Tower/AWX, YAML, and infrastructure-as-code principles is highly desirable.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead infrastructure automation, provisioning, and application build/deployment activities.
  • Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and automation scripts.
  • Troubleshoot deployment issues and improve release reliability.
  • Enhance CI/CD workflows in collaboration with DevOps, application, and database teams.
  • Support continuous integration and continuous deployment processes.


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