Automation DevOps Engineer- W2 Candidates only

Ordinarily 10 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Network and application traffic-drain automation.

• Policy-based access control and enterprise change-management integration.

• Mission-critical infrastructure or transaction-processing environments.