Ansible Automation Engineer
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About the Role
Miraki Tech seeks an experienced Ansible Automation Engineer to design, develop, and support enterprise automation in a large banking IT environment. The role involves automating operations, provisioning, patching, and compliance across diverse platforms.
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Responsibilities
- Design and maintain a modular, role based Ansible project structure 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 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
- 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 integrated with Ansible
- Manage LPAR lifecycle, VIOS virtual adapter configuration, and WPARs using ibm power aix collection
Requirements
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced Automation (EX374)
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE EX294 Ansible)
- Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) Implementation
- Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) recommended
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Role Overview
- We are looking for an experienced Ansible L2 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.
Technical Skills & Platform
- 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)
- Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) Implementation
- Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
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