Automation Engineer

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 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.