"Ansible SME" - Charlotte, NC / TX/ AZ/ MN/ NJ/ DE/ MO - CG

Role: Ansible SME

Locations: Charlotte, NC (Preferred)/ Irving, TX/ West Des Moines, IA/ Chandler, AZ/ Phoenix, AZ/ Iselin, NJ/ Minneapolis, MN/ Wilmington, DE/ St. Louis, MO (Hybrid Onsite)

Duration: 12+ Months Contract

F2F Interview Highly Preferred For Local Candidates

Note: Candidate needs to be in the office 3-4 Days every week. Local or candidates from adjacent states only.

Job Description:

• The Ansible SME will be one of the technical experts for Ansible ecosystem & DevOps practices within the organization, providing solutions and technical implementation aligned with the automation program objectives.
• This team member will develop Ansible artefacts, troubleshoot issues and work on implementing configuration management roadmap of the organization
• Understand and remediate complex issues and topologies of large enterprises
• Develop Ansible playbooks and modules
• Define and setup the process for managing Ops developed playbooks
• Administer Ansible infrastructure, perform maintenance and configuration and provide SME level support.
• Auto configuration of standalone or cluster for middleware and database infrastructures, including the provisioning of Middleware and Database components after system builds.
• Generate auto start/stop scripts, auto registration to load balancers, creation / cloning of database schemas using Ansible.
• Generalize the ops playbooks for other environments and feedback / handover to the Platform Solutions team (where appropriate).
• Provide advice and recommendation to improve the standards and policies (naming and organization conventions, etc) for the platform environment.
• Provide technical support to IT ops around automation solution usage Provide assistant to the DevOps team to develop, configure and administer overall DevOps and IT automation solutions.
• At least 2 years of experience using Ansible for DevOps Development with cloud environments and their supporting infrastructures.
• Strong experience with Ansible Playbook development and Ansible Tower deployment.
• Intermediate-level scripting in Bash or Python.
• Experience in Ruby, PL/SQL, PowerShell is advantageous.
• Log mining & analytics using Splunk.
• Good understanding of Jenkins, Git
• Experience implementing a continuous integration (CI) or continuous development (CD) pipeline.
• Knowledge of container management and orchestration tools Comfortable with frequent, incremental code, testing and deployment.
• Ability to adapt to a changing and dynamic environment

In compliance with the salary transparency law, the expected pay range for this role is $50 $60/hr. Actual compensation depends on experience and interview evaluation.