Ansible & DevOps - Senior Automation Engineer

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.