Ansible Automation Engineer

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for an Ansible Automation Engineer in Raleigh, NC or Charlotte, NC (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 24 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 4 + years of experience in Infrastructure engineering / development or Information Security Engineering.
• 4 + Years of experience developing deployments with infrastructure as code automation such as Terraform.
• 3 + years of experience developing, testing, and debugging automated solutions using Ansible, Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) toolset.
• 3 + Years of hands-on experience in scripting, orchestration, and automation languages such as PowerShell / DSC, Python, Bash/Shell scripting and Ansible to deploy Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• 3 + Years of Experience with Jenkins CI/CD for automated code integrations and deployment.
• 5+ years of Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

Desired Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of network engineering experience
• 1 + years of experience in technical deployment, configuration, integration, and administration of at least one of the following network security technologies: AAA, TACACS, RADIUS, or 802.1x Network Admission Control (NAC)
• 1+ years of direct hands-on experience with Cisco Identity Services Engine
• 1+ years of experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk
• Experience as a member of a Kanban Agile team
• Experience with the Ansible automation platform
• Experience with python scripting development, testing, and execution.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead computer security incident response activities for highly complex events.
• Conduct technical investigation of security related incidents and post incident digital forensics to identify causes and recommend future mitigation strategies.
• Provide security consulting on large projects for internal clients to ensure conformity with corporate information, security policy, and standards.
• Design, document, test, maintain, and provide issue resolution recommendations for highly complex security solutions related to networking, cryptography, cloud, authentication and directory services, email, internet, applications, and endpoint security.
• Review and correlate security logs.
• Utilize subject matter knowledge in industry leading security solutions and best practices to implement one or more components of information security such as availability, integrity, confidentiality, risk management, threat identification, modeling, monitoring, incident response, access management, and business continuity.
• Identify security vulnerabilities and issues, perform risk assessments, and evaluate remediation alternatives.
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers.
• Lead a team to achieve objectives.
• Provide authentication, authorization, and accounting services through TACACS+, RADIUS, and 802.1X.
• Responsible for the development, certification, deployment, and maintenance required to provide these services.
• Work with customer group to develop, test, and implement authentication solutions for TACACS and RADIUS user authentication.
• Provide infrastructure support to include investigation, vendor engagement when necessary, and remediation implementation.
• Provide technical expertise related to TACACS, RADIUS, and 802.1X authentication protocols.
• Create new and maintaining existing team process/procedure documentation.