Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer

*What you will do*

We are looking for an experienced Ansible Engineer to join our dynamic DevOps team. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of automation, configuration management, and infrastructure-as-code principles, with a strong focus on Ansible. You will work closely with developers, system administrators, and other stakeholders to automate infrastructure related processes, improve deployment pipelines, and ensure consistent configurations across multiple environments.

The Infrastructure Automation Engineer will be responsible for developing innovative self-service solutions for our global workforce and further enhancing our self-service automation built using Ansible.

As part of a scaled Agile product delivery team, the Developer works closely with product feature owners, project partners, operational support teams, peer developers and testers to develop solutions to enhance self-service capabilities and solve business problems by identifying requirements, conducting feasibility analysis, proof of concepts and design sessions.

The Developer serves as a domain expert on the design, integration and operability of solutions to support innovation initiatives with business partners and shared services technology teams.

• Automating repetitive IT tasks - Collaborate with multi-functional teams to gather requirements and build automation solutions for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and software deployment.
• Configuration Management - Design, implement, and maintain code including Ansible playbooks, roles, and inventories for automating system configurations and deployments and ensuring consistency
• Ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of automated solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to automation scripts, infrastructure, and deployments.
• Perform infrastructure automation assessments, implementations, providing solutions to increase efficiency, repeatability, and consistency.
• DevOps Facilite continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
• Orchestration Coordinating multiple automated tasks across systems
• Develop and maintain clear, reusable, and version-controlled playbooks and scripts.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure using Ansible and terraform automation (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).
• Continuously improve automation workflows and practices to enhance speed, quality, and reliability.
• Ensure that infrastructure automation adheres to best practices, security standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Document and maintain processes, configurations, and changes in the automation infrastructure.
• Participate in design review, client requirements sessions and development teams to deliver features and capabilities supporting automation initiatives
• Collaborate with product owners, partners, testers and other developers to understand, estimate, prioritize and implement solutions
• Design, code, debug, document, deploy and maintain solutions in a highly efficient and effective manner
• Participate in problem analysis, code review, and system design
• Remain current on new technology and apply innovation to improve functionality
• Collaborate closely with partners and team members to configure, improve and maintain current applications
• Work directly with users to resolve support issues within product team responsibilities
• Monitor health, performance and usage of developed solutions

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 2 to 4 years of computer science, IT, or related field experience OR
• Masters degree and 4 to 6 years of computer science, IT, or related field experience OR
• Bachelors degree and 6 to 8 years of computer science, IT, or related field experience OR
• Diploma and 10 to 12 years of computer science, IT, or related field experience
• Deep hands-on experience with Ansible including playbooks, roles, and modules
• Proven experience as an Ansible Engineer or in a similar automation role
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or other programming languages
• Proficiency expertise in Terraform & CloudFormation for AWS infrastructure automation
• Experience with other configuration management tools (e.g., Puppet, Chef).
• Experience with Linux administration, scripting (Python, Bash), and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, etc.)
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., Dynatrace, Prometheus, Nagios)
• Working in an Agile (SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban) environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and service mesh architectures.
• Knowledge of AWS Lambda and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with AWS CDK, Ansible, or Packer for cloud automation.
• Exposure to multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP)
• Experience operating within a validated systems environment (FDA, European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products, Ministry of Health, etc.)

Professional Certifications (preferred):

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing with Ansible Automation Platform
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Managing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
• Terraform Associate Certification

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, cloud-first environment.