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Job Description

Skilsets

Base skills

Ability to perform industry standard gap analysis with customer

Ability to create high level designs for integrations or Ansible Playbook approach

Ability to write technical documentation in Github repository for Ansible content (Ansible Role documentation, README, etc)

Ability to write technical documentation in Confluence according to customer’s requirements

Ability to use draw.io plugin within Confluence to add designs to documentation

Ability to communicate clearly with customer

Ability to perform frequent demos to ensure customer has an understanding and correct expectations of progress

Ability to move requests to “parking lot” and detect scope creep occuring

Ability to properly escalate to Project Manager if necessary

Ability to explain and inform Principal Architect of architectural or design decisions that are needed

Ability to spin up adhoc meetings and understand urgency

Ability to work independently but ALSO as a team

Ability to share and help others on the team

Ability to be open to professional criticism (such as code reviews)

Committed to building the best product for the customer and being open to adjustments or improvements

Ability to estimate your work

Ability to break down work into small achievable tasks

Ability to clearly express updates and raise issues or report blockers pro-actively

Ability to write a Jira ticket covering pre-reqs, definition of done and any blockers or issues

Follows an Agile methodology

Builds and designs based on MVP approach

Ansible basic skills

Experience with setting up Ansible within Python Virtual Environment on a development server (bastion host)

Ability to create an Ansible Project repository with proper folders and files as a foundation

Ability to build a Playbook with Roles

Ability to write and test custom plugins or modules

Ability to write custom inventory plugins

Requires Python knowledge

Requires an understanding of Ansible plugin/module python framework

Ability to run playbooks using an existing Execution Environment using ansible-navigator tool

Ability to leverage ansible-inventory tool to test inventory

Ability to create an Ansible Collection for a customer

Ability to test and debug playbooks

Integrations

Knowledge of recommended methods to allow Ansible to integrate external systems, regardless of the system

Leveraging existing Ansible Collection from vendor

Leveraging Ansible uri module to use REST API endpoint

Leveraging custom module using Python inside Ansible framework

Experience building integrations using Ansible

Ansible Platform

Experience with specifically the Ansible Platform 2.5.x - Containerized installation using podman containers on RHEL systems

Experience with installation of AAP 2.5.x Containerized Installation

Experience with config-as-code concepts to use ansible playbook to configure AAP 2.5.x

Experience with transitioning Ansible content to Ansible Platform; not with Ansible Tower, but specifically with Ansible Platform 2.5.x

Understands 2.5.x components (Gateway, Controller, Automation Hub, Redis, Postgres, Event Driven Ansible)

Understands containers and images using podman

Understands image registry concepts

Understands how to configure Automation Hub within AAP 2.5.x

Understands how to configure Event Driven Ansible within AAP 2.5.x

Onboarding

Understanding of governance of the platform

Increasing usage

Managing access using RBAC, etc

Onboarding tenants

Credential management

Inventory management/controls

Repository templates

Execution Environment creation/management

Understanding of a Center of Excellence for automation

Day 2 Operational Playbooks

Experience creating CIS Level 1 Compliance Automation for OS Hardening

Delivery of automation playbooks to enforce CIS Level 1 Benchmark controls

Building a playbook for each system: RHEL 8 & 9 and Windows Server 2016/2019/2022

Includes content for securing operating system baselines across Dev and Pre-Prod environments.

Customer specifics beyond the above items

Delivery of reusable, certified Day 2 operational playbooks including:

User/team onboarding

Inventory and project sync

RBAC policy enforcement

Job lifecycle management

Monitoring and log forwarding

Backup and recovery

• PostgreSQL snapshot creation

• Scheduled configuration and EE backups

• Offsite backup replication

• Restoration testing and job re-validation

Disaster recovery and backup playbooks delivered and validated

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Skills and Requirements

Extensive Ansible Experience

Extensive AAP (Ansible Automation Platform) experience