Are you looking to take the next steps in your career as a Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Consultant? Let's chat and see if we are a good match!
Opportunity:
Virtual Service Operations is looking for an experienced Consultant with deep expertise in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to support a DoD customer's enterprise automation work. This is a hands-on technical role. The consultant will design, deploy and operate AAP, and build automation content that cuts down manual work across the customer's infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Design, install, configure and upgrade Ansible Automation Platform (automation controller, private automation hub, Event-Driven Ansible)
- Develop, test and maintain playbooks, roles and collections that automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, patching and compliance
- Build and manage execution environments with ansible-builder, and publish content through private automation hub
Integrate AAP with source control, CI/CD pipelines, credential and secrets management, and identity providers (LDAP/AD, SAML)
Set up RBAC, organizations, teams, inventories and job templates in automation controller - Automate security hardening and compliance (STIG, DISA, SCAP) across RHEL and Windows systems
- Troubleshoot automation failures and platform issues, and tune performance
- Document architecture, runbooks and standards, and train customer staff on automation best practices
Skills and Experience:
- Ansible Automation Platform: Hands-on experience with AAP 2.x: automation controller, private automation hub, execution environments, and ansible-navigator/ansible-builder
- Automation development: Strong skills writing playbooks, roles and custom collections; Jinja2 templating; YAML; dynamic inventories
- Linux: Advanced RHEL administration (RHEL 8/9)
- Integrations: Git-based workflows (GitLab/GitHub), CI/CD pipelines, and REST API integrations
- Security/compliance: Experience automating STIG remediation and working in secure, disconnected or air-gapped environments
- Scripting: Python and/or Bash
- RH Ansible Automation Platform Certification
