Jnr Ansible Operations Engineer

About the position

• Create, manage and operate IaC with Terraform


• 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


• Assist to ensure stability of systems and adherence of the team to the Group’s Operations standards.


• 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


• 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

Minimum Requirements:

QUALIFICATIONS / EXPERIENCE:

• Degree in Information Systems or equivalent experience


• Experience with Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform (or Ansible Tower/AWX)


• Experience with Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, SLES)


• Experience with coding and scripting (Bash, PowerShell etc) (Advantageous)


• Experience with Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure)


• Experience with Red Hat Satellite (Advantageous)


• Any Linux certification such as RHCSA (Advantageous)


• ITIL certification (Advantageous)                  


• Minimum of 2 years of configuration management and automation experience


• Minimum of 2 years of ITIL work experience   


• Minimum of 2 years of Scrum work experience


• Minimum of 2 years of operating system administration work experience

 



MINIMUM SKILLS:

• Knowledge of Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket/GitHub


• Knowledge of Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform/Ansible Tower


• Basic knowledge of framework Agile Working Model


• Basic knowledge of Virtualisation technologies such as VMWare


• Basic knowledge of Private Cloud solutions


• Basic knowledge of Windows Server


• Basic knowledge of Dynatrace


• Basic knowledge of Splunk


• Basic knowledge of containerization technologies such as podman, Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift


• Basic knowledge of Directory Access Manager (DIVA)


• Basic knowledge of Intelligent Storage Orchestration Environment (iStore) and Active Directory Gruppentool (ADGR)


• Basic knowledge of ITIL and ITSM such as Problem-Incident-Change processes


• Basic knowledge of ITSM Suite


• Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter

 



ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

• Experience with Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform (or Ansible Tower/AWX)


• Experience with Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, SLES)


• Experience with coding and scripting (Bash, PowerShell etc) (Advantageous)


• Experience with Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure)


• Experience with version control systems (GitHub) (Advantageous)


• Experience with IaC technologies (Terraform) (Advantageous)


• Experience with GitOps (Advantageous)


• 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 (Advantageous)


• ITIL certification (Advantageous)                  


• Any Scrum certification (Advantageous) 

Desired Skills:

• system administration
• ITIL
• configuration management
• automation
• Ansible Core
• Ansible Automation Platform
• Terraform