Senior Ansible Developer _ Chennai

Job Description (JD) Senior Developer (Ansible)

Position

Senior Developer – Ansible Automation

Experience

5– 7 Years

Location: Chennai Onsite

Role Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Developer with strong expertise in Ansible Automation to design, develop, and maintain infrastructure automation solutions. The candidate will work closely with DevOps, Cloud, Infrastructure, Security, and Application teams to automate provisioning, configuration management, deployment, and operational tasks across enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, and automation workflows.

Automate server provisioning, application deployment, patching, configuration management, and compliance activities.

Build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for on-premises and cloud environments.

Integrate Ansible with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab.

Develop reusable automation frameworks and best practices.

Troubleshoot automation failures and optimize execution performance.

Work closely with infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to implement scalable automation solutions.

Maintain source control repositories using Git.

Create technical documentation, runbooks, and knowledge articles.

Mentor junior engineers and conduct code reviews.

Ensure automation solutions comply with security and governance standards.

Required Technical Skills

Ansible

Strong hands-on experience with:

Ansible Playbooks

Roles and Collections

Ansible Tower / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)

Inventory Management

Jinja2 Templates

Ansible Vault

Dynamic Inventories

Operating Systems

Linux Administration (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu)

Windows Server Administration

Shell Scripting (Bash)

Programming/Scripting

Python

PowerShell

YAML

JSON

DevOps & CI/CD

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Source Control (Git)

Cloud Platforms

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud Platform (Good to Have)

Infrastructure & Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes/OpenShift

VMware Virtualization