Senior Ansible Developer

Job Description: Ansible Developer

Experience

Relevant Experience: 4+ years

Responsibilities

• Automation Execution: Design, develop, and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections to automate infrastructure tasks following defined architecture and best practices.
• Collaboration: Partner with Infrastructure and Development teams to translate manual operational workflows into automated, repeatable code.
• System Integration: Collaborate with the Internal Backend and DevOps teams to ensure seamless integration of automation scripts with CI/CD pipelines and internal APIs.
• Performance & Quality: Optimize automation scripts for execution speed and reliability while ensuring security compliance and idempotent configurations across diverse environments.
• Project Delivery: Contribute to the automation delivery lifecycle, from initial requirement gathering to final deployment and maintenance in production.
  
  

Preferred Skill Set

Technical Requirements (Primary)

• Core Tech: 4+ years of experience in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), with deep proficiency in Ansible (Playbooks, Roles, Modules, and Ansible Galaxy).
• Languages: Expert-level proficiency in YAML for Ansible and strong scripting skills in Python or Bash.
• Configuration Management: Strong command of Linux system administration (RHEL/Ubuntu) and automated configuration of network or storage services.
• Integration Fluency: Ability to interpret complex infrastructure requirements and implement them as modular, reusable Ansible roles.
• Version Control: Extensive experience with Git (branching, merging, Pull Requests) and managing code within a collaborative environment.
• Tooling: Experience with Ansible-related tools such as Ansible Lint, Molecule for testing, and Ansible Automation Platform (AWX/Tower).
  
  

Technical Requirements (Secondary)

• Domain Expertise: Familiarity with Storage Management concepts (e.g., SAN/NAS, Object Storage, or Hitachi Storage arrays) to automate storage provisioning and monitoring.
• Infrastructure Context: Knowledge of containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and how automation is used to deploy dashboards or services in enterprise cloud environments.
• System Awareness: Deep understanding of Linux/Unix internals and how automation interacts with system-level APIs and CLI-driven data.
• Monitoring Integration: Experience implementing automation for monitoring agents (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) and handling live system alerts via automated remediation.
  
  

Soft Skills

• Communication: Ability to articulate technical constraints to designers and business requirements to developers.
• Ownership: A lead by example mindset with a focus on delivering high-quality, maintainable code.
• Problem Solving: A proactive approach to identifying bottlenecks and implementing architectural improvements.
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience: 4–7 years of strong experience in frontend engineering within enterprise-grade environments.
  
  

Education: Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

• Technical Mastery: Proven track record of building and scaling enterprise automation using Ansible and Python.
  
  

Business Hour

Normal Business hours. The expectation would be to start early to cover PST timezone or start late to cover EST time. Exception subject to manager permission.

Job Type

• Hybrid Working: Minimum 2 days from office Tuesday and Thursday, but in case of business need and high demand, the manager may request to be present in the office on other days.
  
  

Location

Pune – Maharashtra – India