1185 Ansible Operations Engineer(Senior)

SUMMARY:
Anisible Operations Engineer opportunity on a fixed term contract.

POSITION INFO:
Requirements:

• Diploma or Degree in Information systems
• Strong Experience with Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform (or Ansible Tower/AWX)
• Strong experience with coding and scripting (Bash, PowerShell etc)
• Strong experience with Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, SLES)
• Strong experience with Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure)
• Strong knowledge with version control systems (GitHub)
• Strong experience with IaC technologies (Terraform)
• Experience with GitOps
• Experience with ServiceNow (Advantageous)
• Experience with Dynatrace (Advantageous)
• Experience with SIEM technologies such as Splunk (Advantageous)
• Experience with Red Hat Satellite (Advantageous)
• Any Linux certification such as RHCSA
• Ansible certification - RHCE (ex294/ex407) (advantageous)
• Ansible tower certification (advantageous)
• ITIL certification (advantageous)
• Any Scrum certification (advantageous)
• Minimum of 3 years of IT operations experience
• Minimum of 3 years of configuration management and automation experience
• Minimum of 3 years of ITIL work experience
• Minimum of 3 years of Scrum work experience
• Minimum of 3 years of operating system administration work experience

• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles in a highly secure and regulated environment
• Create, manage and operate Ansible Automation Platform objects such as templates, credentials, workflows etc
• Consult users to assist with migrating automation workloads to Ansible Automation Platform
• Deploy, manage, and operate workloads on AWS and Azure, as well as implement security controls and compliance requirements
• Create, manage and operate IaC withTerraform
• Perform operating system and Ansible Automation Platform lifecycle management
• Interact with Enterprise GitHub for version control and Git branching strategy
• Track and update Jira user stories to ensure due dates are met
• Forecast and plan for resources, infrastructure, and licenses for the team in coordination with the Product Owner and Line manager in charge.
• Assist to ensure stability of systems and adherence of the team to BMW Group’s Operations standards.
• Assist to maintain a stable Operations standby list for the team.
• Mentor team
• Ensure quality and up to date content of the knowledge base for the sub-product
• Ensure quality and up to date content of the Sub-Product and compliancy required documentation
• Able to understand complex application architecture/dependencies (CA related)
• Perform housekeeping/monitoring/managing of the Ansible Automation Platform focusing on stability/performance as well as cost optimization.
• Manage Problem, Incident and Change process for dedicated ITSM service
• Willing to do standby and work on weekends if needed
• Keep documentation up to date in all relevant systems (e. g. as is configuration CMDB/Application Instance Wizard, to be configuration Connect IT, knowledge database resolveIT)
• Attend and moderate operation meetings
• Coordinate external contractors
• Manage security vulnerabilities