Ansible Consultant

Job Description

A client of Insight Global is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Consultant specializing in Red Hat Ansible to join our dynamic team. This role requires deep expertise in Ansible Core content creation, including the ability to write, test, and troubleshoot complex playbooks for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation. The ideal candidate will possess a comprehensive understanding of Ansible concepts, such as idempotency, agentless architecture, and the interplay between modules, playbooks, collections, and inventories.

They should be adept at structuring automation using roles, managing data with variables and facts, handling secrets and templates, and ensuring secure and efficient deployments. A strong background in infrastructure automation is essential, with hands-on experience automating virtual machines, cloud instances, and containers. In addition, the candidate should demonstrate a broad grasp of general automation principles, including workflow orchestration, exception handling, data integration, scalability, and modular design.

Familiarity with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) is a plus, particularly in areas such as job scheduling, GUI dashboards, access control, and workflow management.

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• Ansible Core Content Creation:
  Experience in actually creating content for Ansible Core. Ability to write, test, and troubleshoot complex Ansible playbooks for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation.
• Ansible Concept Understanding: A thorough understanding of the concepts of Ansible, including idempotency, agentless architecture, and how modules, playbooks, collections, and inventories function together. Knowledge of structuring automation using roles, managing data with variables, facts, repositories, secrets, and templates, and effectively troubleshooting and securing deployments.
• Infrastructure Automation
  
  Experience:
  
  Proven experience with automating infrastructure resources such as virtual machines, cloud instances, and containers.
• Broad Automation Principles:
  Broad understanding of general automation concepts such as workflow orchestration, exception handling, data integration, scalability, security considerations in automated processes, and the importance of reusability and modularity in automation design.
• Introductory Knowledge of AAP:
  Familiarity with or experience using Ansible Automation Platform for job scheduling, GUI dashboards, access control, and workflow management. Does not have to be extensive.