Title: Senior Automation Engineer with Ansible

Location: Woodlawn, MD Onsite: 5 Days/Week Rate: $75/hr C2C Interview: In-Person

Key Requirements:

Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant IT experience

Extensive hands-on experience with Ansible, including production-grade playbooks, roles, collections, templates, and reusable automation

Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), including administration and development

Strong AWS engineering experience

Experience designing, provisioning, configuring, and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure

Hands-on experience developing AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks

Experience using Ansible or similar automation tools to provision and manage AWS resources

Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, IAM, compute, storage, and related services

Strong Linux systems administration and engineering experience, preferably with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Experience with Linux patching, package management, authentication, networking, storage, SELinux, and firewalls

Proficiency with Python for infrastructure automation, scripting, APIs, and integrations

Experience with source control, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and unit testing

Experience building and maintaining containerized execution environments

Experience with Red Hat Satellite and Linux lifecycle/patch management

Experience with Linux identity and authentication technologies such as Red Hat IdM/FreeIPA

Ability to independently own complex technical assignments with minimal supervision

Preferred Experience:

AWS Systems Manager and patch-management automation

STIG implementation, remediation, or compliance validation

FIPS-enabled environments

Large-scale enterprise Linux and AWS environments

Federal government, regulated, or security-sensitive environments

Red Hat, Ansible, Linux, Python, or AWS certifications

Additional Responsibilities:

Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise automation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Develop Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, templates, job templates, and workflows for Linux and AWS infrastructure.

Develop automation for AWS networking, compute, storage, security, and supporting services.

Administer AAP inventories, credentials, RBAC, organizations, job templates, workflows, execution environments, and Ansible Builder.

Automate Linux provisioning, configuration management, patching, security hardening, authentication, networking, storage, SELinux, and firewall management.

Integrate Red Hat Satellite with Linux management and automation workflows.

Build and customize containerized execution environments.

Develop automated tests and integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines.

Develop patch-management automation using AWS Systems Manager.

Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across AWS, Linux, networking, authentication, storage, security, and application dependencies. Senior Automation Engineer Ansi…

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