Remote - AWX/Ansible Automation Architect - CGEMJP00329412

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Hope you're doing well.

My name is Mayank, and I am a Technical Recruiter from Empower Professionals Inc. We are sourcing for a "AWX/Ansible Automation Architect" role and it's a long-term contract with possible extensions.

 

Role: AWX/Ansible Automation Architect - CGEMJP00329412

Locations: 100% Remote

Duration: 12+ Months Contract

 

Role Summary:

• The AWX / Ansible Automation Architect will be responsible for assessing, designing, and enhancing enterprise automation environments with a focus on high availability, resiliency, and operational continuity.
• This role requires deep expertise in AWX/Ansible, infrastructure automation, Red Hat Ansible Tower, and database management to ensure a robust, scalable, and fault‑tolerant automation platform.

 

Key Responsibilities:

AWX / Ansible Platform Management

• Administer, maintain, and optimize AWX environments, including upgrades, configuration, clustering, and troubleshooting.
• Design and implement high‑availability (HA) and redundancy strategies for AWX (replicas, node affinity, storage, operator‑based deployment).
• Analyze existing AWX deployments and recommend improvements to prevent outages, performance bottlenecks, or single points of failure.
• Define and enforce best practices for job templates, workflows, inventories, credentials, and RBAC within AWX.
• Manage integration of AWX with GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, HashiCorp Vault, or other enterprise tooling.

 

Red Hat Ansible Tower / Automation Controller Administration:

• Provide advanced administration and architectural support for Red Hat Ansible Tower / Automation Controller.
• Implement automation lifecycle governance (development → test → production).
• Manage execution environments, automation hub content, credential management, and secure integration patterns.
• Troubleshoot and optimize job execution performance, scheduling, and controller/worker scaling.

 

Database & SQL Management:

• Administer and support the PostgreSQL database backing AWX/Automation Controller.
• Implement backup and recovery strategies (pg_dump, PITR, snapshots, scheduled backups).
• Monitor query performance, tune parameters, and design HA architectures for Postgres (e.g., clustering, managed cloud services, Multi‑AZ).
• Ensure proper storage provisioning, replication strategies, and resiliency for AWX's database layer.
• Support SQL‑based integrations (CMDBs, reporting systems, analytics platforms).

 

Automation & Infrastructure Engineering:

• Design and review Ansible playbooks, roles, modules, and automation frameworks following best practices.
• Provide stewardship over automation content versioning, GitOps workflows, and secure code review processes.
• Integrate automation with cloud and on‑prem platforms (AWS, Azure, VMware, Cisco, etc.).
• Implement monitoring, logging, observability dashboards, SLOs/SLIs, and proactive alerting.

 

Reliability, Security & Compliance:

• Assess the root causes of prior outages (e.g., patch‑related AWX failures) and develop mitigation strategies.
• Implement secrets management, RBAC, least‑privilege principles, and credential isolation for automation workloads.
• Ensure automation environments meet enterprise security, compliance, and audit requirements.

 

Required Skills & Experience:

• Hands‑on AWX administration, including Operator deployment, Kubernetes/OpenShift knowledge, and HA design.
• Strong PostgreSQL or SQL database administration experience (backup, recovery, replication, tuning).
• Red Hat Ansible Tower / Automation Controller administration experience (HA, RBAC, workflows, scaling).
• Expert‑level knowledge of Ansible playbooks, YAML, roles, inventories, templating, Ansible Vault.
• Kubernetes (k8s) skills for managing AWX clusters, including pods, deployments, ingress controllers, and stateful services.
• Strong Linux (RHEL/CentOS) systems understanding.
• Experience integrating automation with CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with logging, monitoring, observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk).

 

Soft Skills:

• Ability to assess client environments and produce clear architectural recommendations.
• Strong documentation skills (HLDs, LLDs, runbooks, operational models).
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Proven record of stabilizing and maturing automation platforms in enterprise environments.

 

Preferred Certifications:

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD)
• PostgreSQL or cloud database certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP)

 

 

Thanks

Mayank Verma

Senior Technical Recruiter | Empower Professionals

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mayank@empowerprofessionals.com | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayankdverma/

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