What are the responsibilities and job description for the Ansible & DevOps - Senior Automation Engineer position at Lorven Technologies Inc.?
Senior Automation Engineer – Ansible & DevOps
Location: St Louis, Missouri (onsite 5 days)
Seniority: Senior engineer, ordinarily 6 or more years of relevant automation or DevOps experience.
Mission: Automate traffic draining, maintenance, patching, software deployment, validation, and recovery workflows so operations are safe, repeatable, and auditable.
Core Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and orchestration workflows.
- Integrate proxy controls with patching, IPL/restart, and software-release processes.
- Build pre-checks, post-checks, health validation, rollback, and manual fallback procedures.
- Integrate automation with Jenkins and enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
- Apply source control, testing, approval, promotion, access-control, and audit standards to automation.
- Produce operational playbooks that BizOps can execute safely.
Required Skills
- Advanced Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform experience.
- Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD orchestration.
- Python and Linux scripting.
- Infrastructure as Code, Git-based workflows, and API integration.
- Experience automating high-risk production maintenance and recovery procedures.
Preferred Experience
- Network and application traffic-drain automation.
- Policy-based access control and enterprise change-management integration.
- Mission-critical infrastructure or transaction-processing environments.