Snr Ansible Operations Engineer

1 week ago

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Mediro ICT Recruitment Full time
Senior Information Systems Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Information Systems Engineer with a deep understanding of Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform.

This will be a long-term fixed contract of 3-years (Renewable & Ongoing) working on a Hybrid model.

Responsibilities:
  • Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles in a highly secure and regulated environment.
  • Create, manage and operate Ansible Automation Platform objects such as templates, credentials, workflows, etc.
  • Consult users to assist with migrating automation workloads to Ansible Automation Platform.
  • Deploy, manage, and operate workloads on AWS and Azure, as well as implement security controls and compliance requirements.
  • Create, manage and operate IaC with Terraform.
  • Perform operating system and Ansible Automation Platform lifecycle management.
  • Interact with Enterprise GitHub for version control and Git branching strategy.
  • Track and update Jira user stories to ensure due dates are met.
  • Forecast and plan for resources, infrastructure, and licenses for the team in coordination with the Product Owner and Line manager in charge.
  • Assist to ensure stability of systems and adherence of the team to the Group's Operations standards.
  • Ensure quality and up-to-date content of the knowledge base for the sub-product.
  • Ensure quality and up-to-date content of the Sub-Product and compliance required documentation.
  • Able to understand complex application architecture/dependencies (CA related).
  • Perform housekeeping/monitoring/managing of the Ansible Automation Platform focusing on stability/performance as well as cost optimization.
  • Manage Problem, Incident and Change process for dedicated ITSM service.
  • Willing to do standby and work on weekends if needed.
  • Keep documentation up to date in all relevant systems (e.g., as-is configuration CMDB/Application Instance Wizard, to-be configuration Connect IT, knowledge database resolveIT).
  • Attend and moderate operation meetings.
  • Manage security vulnerabilities.
Qualifications:
  • Degree in Information Systems or equivalent experience.
  • Strong experience with Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform (or Ansible Tower/AWX).
  • Strong experience with coding and scripting (Bash, PowerShell, etc.).
  • Strong experience with Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, SLES).
  • Strong experience with Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure).
  • Strong knowledge with version control systems (GitHub).
  • Strong experience with IaC technologies (Terraform).
  • Experience with GitOps.
  • Experience with ServiceNow (Advantageous).
  • Experience with Dynatrace (Advantageous).
  • Experience with SIEM technologies such as Splunk (Advantageous).
  • Experience with Red Hat Satellite (Advantageous).
  • Any Linux certification such as RHCSA.
  • Ansible certification - RHCE (ex294/ex407) (advantageous).
  • Ansible tower certification (advantageous).
  • ITIL certification (advantageous).
  • Any Scrum certification (advantageous).
  • Minimum of 5 years of IT operations experience.
  • Minimum of 5 years of configuration management and automation experience.
  • Minimum of 4 years of ITIL work experience.
  • Minimum of 4 years of Scrum work experience.
  • Minimum of 6 years of operating system administration work experience.
Minimum Skills:
  • Deep knowledge of Confluence, Jira, and Bitbucket/GitHub.
  • Deep knowledge of Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform/Ansible Tower.
  • Deep knowledge of cloud technologies such as AWS and Azure.
  • Deep knowledge of Unix, Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, SLES).
  • Deep knowledge of IaC and related tools such as Terraform.
  • Deep knowledge of mounting technologies Autofs and DFS.
  • Deep knowledge of storage technologies as well as state-of-the-art solutions.
  • Deep knowledge of network technologies and protocols NFS, CIFS, SSH, DNS, and NTP.
  • Deep knowledge of scripting/programming such as Bash, Python, and Perl.
  • Any additional responsibilities as assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter.
Additional Skills:
  • Knowledge of framework Agile Working Model.
  • Knowledge of Virtualization technologies such as VMWare.
  • Knowledge of Private Cloud solutions.
  • Knowledge of Windows Server.
  • Knowledge of Dynatrace.
  • Knowledge of Splunk.
  • Knowledge of containerization technologies such as podman, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
  • Knowledge of Directory Access Manager (DIVA).
  • Knowledge of Intelligent Storage Orchestration Environment (iStore) and Active Directory Gruppentool (ADGR).
  • Basic knowledge of ITIL and ITSM such as Problem-Incident-Change processes.
  • Basic knowledge of ITSM Suite.
  • Basic knowledge of Scrum.
  • Basic knowledge of Active Directory/LDAP and OIDC.
  • Professional communication and documentation skills.
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