Automation Engineer

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.