Ansible Automation Platform Sr. Consultant

Overview

Remote
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
No Travel Required

Skills

RHEL
VMware
LEAPP
Ansible
MVP
Logistics

Job Details

Job Title RH Ansible Automation Platform Sr. Consultant
Tax Work Location: Remote

Description:
Project Phases and Tasks
The project is structured into three main phases: Engagement Readiness, Navigate Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Planning, and Foundation.
Phase 1: Engagement Readiness
This initial phase focuses on preparation and logistics to ensure the project starts smoothly.
Technical Oversight:
Implement a technical prerequisites checklist for the client to complete.
Validate that the technical prerequisites have been met.
Determine if the environment is ready for the engagement.
Answer technical questions to prepare client personnel.
Logistics:
Identify project points of contact.
Coordinate with project leads and stakeholders before the official kickoff.
Arrange Red Hat's onsite requirements and logistics.
Coordinate access to necessary document repositories.
Phase 2: Navigate Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Planning
This phase involves a series of workshops and discussions to define strategy and create a plan.
Strategy and Planning Workshops:
Develop an automation strategy, covering team skills, adoption plans, and benefit identification.
Determine automation objectives and prioritize use cases with target criteria and measurements.
Identify interconnections and dependencies for business workflows.
Understand networking requirements and topologies for the Ansible Automation Platform.
Defining Processes and Use Cases:
Establish the ways of working and rules of engagement between Red Hat and Entergy.
Discuss monitoring, reporting, and retention requirements.
Define the automation content lifecycle, including content creation, inventory, credentials, and execution environments.
Define and create implementation guides for three (3) targeted automation use cases:
ServiceNow integration
Provisioning RHEL servers
Patching existing RHEL servers (identified as a stretch goal)
Documentation and Alignment:
Establish a task backlog for the foundation phase to deliver a minimum viable product (MVP).
Present the outcomes of the Navigate phase to stakeholders and agree on next steps.
Phase 3: Foundation
This is the implementation phase where the planned infrastructure and automation are built out.
Ansible Automation Platform Infrastructure:
Populate an inventory in Ansible Controller with at least one source control inventory source.
Combine job templates into a workflow template.
Deploy, configure, and validate a Private Automation Hub Cluster.
Create and use one custom Execution Environment to support VMware integration.
Integrate the Ansible Automation Platform with ServiceNow to trigger Ansible tasks.
Automation Content Creation:
Write Ansible content (playbooks, roles) to achieve the goals for the following use cases:
Creating new RHEL servers on VMware.
Creating new RHEL servers on Nutanix (stretch goal).
Patching existing RHEL servers using LEAPP (stretch goal).
Ongoing Technical Oversight:
Resolve technical issues, manage scope, and submit Red Hat product issues or requests for enhancements (RFEs).
Escalate issues as needed and manage technical communications to facilitate decision-making

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