Gazelle Global Consulting Hiring for Ansible Engineer Job at Remote Full Time

• IT
• CR/066550
• Contract

My client is looking for Ansible Engineer, and I wanted to know whether this would be of interest to you or not?

Position: Ansible Engineer

Location: UK (Remote)

Duration: 6+ months contract

Rate: £450/day inside IR35

Job Description:

• Hands-On experience in developing Ansible playbook for infrastructure components.
• Develop Ansible Playbooks for integration with third party tools
• Ability to write test cases for the Ansible playbooks for managing the OS lifecycle like patching , upgrades, provisioning, decommissioning etc..
• Good understanding on Ansible Tower
• Ability to handle DevOps tools like Git, Jenkins, artifactory etc.
• Ability to write scripts for automating the infrastructure components through shell/python scripts.
• Good understanding on Infrastructure components like server, network, operating system, database etc.
• Agile development – incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Crucible, Sonar, Junit
• Configuration Management – Experience with Configuration management tools Such as Ansible/Salt stack/Chef/Puppet.

Desired Skills

• Ansible & Ansible Tower
• Ansible Playbooks
• Shell/PowerShell/Python Scripting
• DevOps Tools – Git, Jenkins, Artifactory
• Infrastructure Components – Server, Network, OS, Database

Key Responsibilities

• Implementation of solution for automating responses to health alerts of various applications and security appliances.
• Development of Ansible playbooks to ensure zero human touch upgrades, both for internal infrastructure, application patching, upgrades etc..
• Development tuning of multi-layered alerts to provide early warning of critical system resources and ensuring a near zero downtime matrix.
• Scheduled maintenance activities to keep the infrastructure components robust with latest patches and updated versions of software running in the infrastructure stack.
• Experience in management of Open Source infra health monitoring technologies like Prometheus, Grafana and so on.
• Expertise in using Ansible, Git and configuration management tools.
• Implementation of automation using scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Go Lang etc
• Design, engineer, operationalize and maintain the secure systems which support continuous deployment/integration solutions with strong focus towards innovation Ansible or other tooling to execute seamless automation.
• Have strong problem solving and debugging skills.
• Efficiently managed and maintained cluster of devices in large scale enterprise datacentres with minimum to zero downtime.
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and above all, you are a team player!

Qualifications

• Good experience in developing and maintaining enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Experience in Project life cycle activities on development and maintenance projects. Including CI/CD and tools development preferably open source
• Strategic thinker who can balance big picture strategy with detailed, flawless execution.
• Excellent communication skills.

If you are interested in this position, please send me your CV ASAP for immediate consideration or refer someone if this is not for you