Senior Automation Engineer

Senior Automation Engineer – Ansible & DevOps

Location : St Louis, Missouri (onsite 5 days)

Must: Automate traffic draining, maintenance

Automation Engineer – Ansible & DevOps

Senior engineer, ordinarily 6 or more years of relevant automation or DevOps experience.

Mission: Automate traffic draining, maintenance, patching, software deployment, validation, and recovery workflows so operations are safe, repeatable, and auditable.

Core responsibilities

· Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and orchestration workflows.

· Integrate proxy controls with patching, IPL/restart, and software-release processes.

· Build pre-checks, post-checks, health validation, rollback, and manual fallback procedures.

· Integrate automation with Jenkins and enterprise CI/CD pipelines.

· Apply source control, testing, approval, promotion, access-control, and audit standards to automation.

· Produce operational playbooks that BizOps can execute safely.

Required skills

· Advanced Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform experience.

· Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD orchestration.

· Python and Linux scripting.

· Infrastructure as Code, Git-based workflows, and API integration.

· Experience automating high-risk production maintenance and recovery procedures.

Preferred experience

· Network and application traffic-drain automation.

· Policy-based access control and enterprise change-management integration.

· Mission-critical infrastructure or transaction-processing environments.