Ansible Automation Engineer
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Design and support automation in a banking IT environment using Ansible, integrating CI/CD pipelines and managing multi-vendor systems for compliance and efficiency.
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Overview
We are looking for an experienced
Automation Engineer
to design, develop, integrate, and support enterprise automation use cases across a
large banking IT environment
.
The resource will automate day-to-day operations, provisioning, patching, health checks, compliance checks, and remediation workflows across infrastructure, cloud, network, security, database, middleware, AIX, VMware, Nutanix, OCI, and mainframe-related environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and maintain a modular, role-based Ansible project structure (collections, roles, playbooks) aligned to banking ITSM standards (ITIL v4).
- Build and enforce Ansible best practices: idempotency, error handling, vault secrets management, and tag-based execution strategies.
- Develop reusable Ansible Collections for internal consumption and publish to a private Automation Hub / Galaxy.
- Integrate Ansible with AWX / Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) 2.x for workflow orchestration, RBAC, and audit trail.
- Architect end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for playbook testing (Molecule, ansible-lint, YAML lint) via GitLab CI / Jenkins.
- Automate VM lifecycle: provisioning, cloning, snapshot management, decommissioning via community. VMware collection.
- Integrate with vRealize Orchestrator and NSX-T for network-aware VM provisioning.
- Health checks: datastore capacity, VM sprawl detection, HA/DRS cluster status, vCenter certificate expiry.
- Automate cluster provisioning, VM creation, disk/network attachment via nutanix. ncp collection
- Automate OCI resource provisioning: Compute instances, VCNs, subnets, Block Volumes, OCI Vault secrets via oracle. oci collection.
- Implement cost governance: tag enforcement playbooks, idle resource detection, and scheduled shutdown/startup.
- Automate AIX system provisioning via NIM (Network Installation Manager) integrated with Ansible.
- Manage LPAR lifecycle, VIOS virtual adapter configuration, and WPARs using ibm. power aix collection.
- Automate configuration management for multi-vendor network devices (Cisco IOS/NX-OS, Juniper JunOS, Arista EOS, F5 BIG-IP) using platform-specific Ansible collections.
- Implement network compliance playbooks: enforce baseline configs, detect drift, and remediate via NAPALM / netconf / RESTCONF.
- Design and operate bank-wide OS patching automation for Linux (RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu), Windows Server, AIX, and OCI instances.
- Integrate patching workflows with ServiceNow: auto-open CRQs, update CMDB, close with compliance evidence.
- Develop and schedule comprehensive health-check playbooks for all platforms (daily/weekly/on-demand).
- Build capacity reporting automation: CPU/memory/storage trending, forecast alerts.
Ansible Core
AAP 2.x / AWX, Ansible Navigator, Ansible Lint, Molecule, RBAC, Execution Environments, Collections, Vault
VMware
vSphere 7/8, vCenter, ESXi, NSX-T, vSAN, vROps, SDDC Manager, community.
VMware
CI/CD & DevOps
GitLab CI, Jenkins, Git, Jinja2, YAML, Python 3.x, Bash, REST API, JSON/YAML parsing
ITSM & Monitoring
ServiceNow (CMDB, CRQ, Incident), Splunk, ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace
Security & Compliance
CIS Benchmarks, STIG, PCI-DSS, SWIFT CSP, HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk AAM, Qualys/Tenable API
Certifications Required & Recommended
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced Automation (EX374)
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE EX294 Ansible)
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