Lead a team of five engineers in managing and upgrading the organization's Ansible infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Direct the upgrade of the entire Ansible infrastructure, including modifying thousands of playbooks across 168 user groups.
- Monitor playbook modification automation and provide consultative support to resolve validation issues.
- Oversee the RackN bare metal as a service initiative for OS installs on bare metal hosts.
- Mentor a team with varied skill levels to improve technical proficiency.
- Communicate technical progress and project status to clients and leadership using Agile methodologies.
Required Skills
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure automation or related roles.
- Expertise in Ansible for large-scale playbook management and infrastructure orchestration.
- Proficiency in Python for automation scripting.
- Experience with GIT for version control.
- Working knowledge of Artifactory.
- Experience with containerization technologies.
- Proven experience in team leadership and mentorship.
- Strong communication skills for interacting with clients and stakeholders.
- Experience working within Agile frameworks.
Preferred Skills
- Experience managing infrastructure for large user bases (100+ groups).
- Background in bare metal provisioning and OS automation.