Job Description

Closing Date: 2025-08-03
Job Type: Contract
Job Level: Senior
Experience: Between 5 - 7 Years
EE/AA: No
Summary
Our client, a global Leader in the Engineering industry is looking for an Ansible Operations Engineer to join their team on a long term contract basis.
Contract up to end of December 2027.
Location: Pretoria Menlyn / Pretoria Rosslyn / Midrand and home office on a rotational basis.
Description

• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles in a highly secure and regulated environment.
• Create, manage and operate Ansible Automation Platform objects such as templates, credentials, workflows etc.
• Consult users to assist with migrating automation workloads to Ansible Automation Platform.
• Deploy, manage, and operate workloads on AWS and Azure, as well as implement security controls and compliance requirements.
• Create, manage and operate IaC with Terraform.
• Perform operating system and Ansible Automation Platform lifecycle management.
• Interact with Enterprise GitHub for version control and Git branching strategy.
• Track and update Jira user stories to ensure due dates are met.
• Forecast and plan for resources, infrastructure, and licenses for the team in coordination with the Product Owner and Line manager in charge.
• Ensure quality and up to date content of the knowledge base for the sub-product.
• Ensure quality and up to date content of the Sub-Product and compliancy required documentation.
• Able to understand complex application architecture/dependencies (CA related).
• Perform housekeeping/monitoring/managing of the Ansible Automation Platform focusing on stability/performance as well as cost optimization.
• Manage Problem, Incident and Change process for dedicated ITSM service.
• Willing to do standby and work on weekends if needed.

• Degree in Information Systems or equivalent experience.
• Strong Experience with Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform (or Ansible Tower/AWX).
• Strong experience with coding and scripting (Bash, PowerShell etc).
• Strong experience with Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, SLES).
• Strong experience with Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure).
• Strong knowledge with version control systems (GitHub).
• Strong experience with IaC technologies (Terraform).
• Experience with GitOps.
• Any Linux certification such as RHCSA.
• Minimum of 5 years of IT operations experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of configuration management and automation experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of ITIL work experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of Scrum work experience.
• Minimum of 6 years of operating system administration work experience.