Ansible Developer

Sapience INC is hiring for an Ansible Developer. It would be hybrid work arrangement  2 days from client office and 3 days from home

ONLY W2 OR 1099 CONTRACTOR (NO 3RD PARTY PLEASE)

Position: Ansible Developer (2) Role

Location: Charlotte, NC (Hybrid role)

Duration: 12 Months

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• The Ansible Developer will be one of the technical experts for Ansible ecosystem & DevOps practices within the organization, providing solutions and technical implementation aligned with the automation program objectives.
• This team member will develop Ansible artefacts, troubleshoot issues and work on implementing configuration management roadmap of the organization
• Understand and remediate complex issues and topologies of large enterprises
• Develop Ansible playbooks and modules
• Define and setup the process for managing Ops developed playbooks
• Administer Ansible infrastructure, perform maintenance and configuration and provide SME level support.
• Auto configuration of standalone or cluster for middleware and database infrastructures, including the provisioning of Middleware and Database components after system builds.
• Generate auto start/stop scripts, auto registration to load balancers, creation / cloning of database schemas using Ansible.
• Generalize the ops playbooks for other environments and feedback / handover to the Platform Solutions team (where appropriate).
• Provide advice and recommendation to improve the standards and policies (naming and organization conventions, etc) for the platform environment.
• Provide technical support to IT ops around automation solution usage
• Provide assistant to the DevOps team to develop, configure and administer overall DevOps and IT automation solutions.
• At least 2 years of experience using Ansible for DevOps Development with cloud environments and their supporting infrastructures.
• Strong experience with Ansible Playbook development and Ansible Tower deployment.
• Intermediate-level scripting in Bash or Python. Experience in Ruby, PL/SQL, PowerShell is advantageous.
• Log mining & analytics using Splunk.
• Good understanding of Jenkins, Git
• Experience implementing a continuous integration (CI) or continuous development (CD) pipeline.
• Knowledge of container management and orchestration tools
• Comfortable with frequent, incremental code, testing and deployment.
• Ability to adapt to a changing and dynamic environment.
• Basic Understanding in Data science practices and patterns
• Design, develop, and implement test automation with Ansible
• Expert level understanding and implementation of RESTful, SOAP and SDK APIs