client is seeking an Ansible Automation Engineer to join their team in a contract-to-hire capacity. This individual will lead infrastructure automation initiatives across Linux and cloud environments, helping reduce manual operational work through scalable, repeatable automation solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automation solutions using Ansible and Terraform
• Build scalable automation frameworks for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployments
• Automate processes across Linux (Red Hat/OpenShift), cloud, and infrastructure platforms
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, DevOps, and Engineering teams to identify and implement automation opportunities
• Troubleshoot and optimize existing automation workflows, playbooks, and pipelines
• Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation and automation standards
• Support enterprise infrastructure modernization initiatives in a hybrid cloud environment

Requirements

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible (AAP, playbooks, roles, modules, automation workflows)
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Linux administration experience, including:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• OpenShift
• Experience supporting cloud platforms:
• Azure
• AWS
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Scripting experience with:
• YAML
• Python
• Experience supporting infrastructure automation, configuration management, and deployment automation
• Strong documentation and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently in a highly technical, non-customer-facing environment

Bonus Skills

• Windows Server administration experience
• PowerShell scripting
• Perl scripting
• Git / version control experience
• CI/CD pipeline experience
• GitOps methodologies
• Docker and Kubernetes exposure
• Security automation or compliance-focused infrastructure experience
• SQL experience