Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer, Ansible

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland.

📋 Description

• Develop automation using Ansible, which includes creating playbooks, roles, modules, and collections.

• Contribute to the establishment of automation practice standards, repository organization, and code review procedures.

• Implement patch management automation for both Linux and Windows environments.

• Create automation solutions for deployment, configuration management, and systems/process automation.

• Integrate automation into infrastructure transformation initiatives from the outset.

• Manage, configure, and support the automation platform.

• Perform code reviews and maintenance related to automation across the team.

• Set up and manage CI/CD pipelines for automation code.

• Define and maintain the inventory and source of truth that supports automation efforts.

• Introduce testing methodologies for automation code.

• Collaborate with estate-maintenance engineers to prioritize automation tasks.

• Share expertise and knowledge with the team.

• Create and update technical documentation as needed.

• Oversee the maintenance of the client's Linux and Windows systems and execute transformation projects within a Polish engineering team of over 12 members.

• Automate processes for both the legacy systems and the new OpenStack platform.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficient knowledge and experience in utilizing, configuring, and maintaining automation platforms, preferably AAP/AWX.

• Familiarity with best practices for crafting and managing Ansible code and repositories.

• Experience in developing Ansible playbooks, roles, and modules, as well as maintaining Ansible collections.

• Proven experience in using Ansible for large-scale system and process management.

• Advanced understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.

• Hands-on experience with patch management for both Linux and Windows systems.

• Experience working with various Linux distributions.

• Proficient programming skills, preferably in Python.

• Strong Git and version control practices applied to automation code.

• Background in creating and maintaining technical documentation.

• Proficiency in English at a C1 level.

• Experience with OpenStack is highly desirable.

• Familiarity with consolidating disparate automation practices into a unified approach is advantageous.

• Experience in establishing technical standards and guiding a team to adopt them is a plus.

• Good understanding of virtualization concepts is beneficial.

• Experience with Puppet is considered a plus.

• Experience migrating from other configuration management tools to Ansible is an advantage.

• Familiarity with testing frameworks for Ansible (e.g., Molecule) is a plus.

• Knowledge of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana) is an added benefit.

• Knowledge of IPAM and IAM is a plus.

• Basic understanding of networking, system firewalls, and storage is advantageous.

• Red Hat / Ansible certifications are a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible and remote work arrangements.

• Opportunities to work on international projects with leading global clients.

• Travel opportunities related to international projects.

• A non-corporate work environment.

• Access to language courses.

• Participation in knowledge-sharing initiatives.

• Access to private healthcare and life insurance.

• Availability of a multisport card.