What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Automation Engineer with Ansible position at First Soft Solutions LLC?
Onsite: 5 Days/Week
Interview: In-Person
Key Requirements
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
- 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
- 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.