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Job Description

The Role:

The Ansible Automation & Platform Engineer is a strategic member of the organization's Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)-responsible for its operations, roadmap execution, governance, and enterprisewide adoption. This role blends deep technical mastery with platform engineering leadership, ensuring that automation becomes a scalable, secure, and customercentric capability across the enterprise.

You will maintain, design and evolve the Ansible Platform, build reusable automation frameworks, integrate automation with other platforms like ServiceNow, and drive the next generation of operational excellence through Agentic AIpowered automation. This role is central to enabling selfservice, reducing operational toil, and modernizing infrastructure operations.

What You'll Do:

Ansible Platform Development & Operation

• Design, implement, and operate the Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) including controller, execution environments, mesh architecture, and collections strategy.

• Define and maintain the Ansible Platform roadmap, including feature evolution, lifecycle management, scalability planning, and enterprise adoption milestones.

• Establish platform governance: coding standards, role/playbook patterns, collections, testing frameworks, and security guardrails.

• Build and maintain Execution Environments (EEs) optimized for performance, security, and dependency management.

• Lead platform upgrades, migrations, and crossenvironment standardization.

Automation Framework Design

• Design enterprisegrade Ansible automation frameworks with reusable roles, collections, and modular playbooks.

• Build automation for provisioning, configuration management, patching, compliance, and cloud infrastructure.

• Integrate Ansible with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and eventdriven automation systems.

• Implement selfservice automation capabilities for developers, operations, and business teams.

Agentic AI Integration

• Integrate Agentic AI systems to enhance automation workflows, including:

  • AIdriven playbook generation and validation

  • Automated remediation recommendations

  • Intelligent changeimpact analysis

  • AIassisted troubleshooting and rootcause analysis

• Design automation patterns that combine AI reasoning with Ansible execution for predictive and autonomous operations.

• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to embed automation signals into AIOps pipelines.

• Cloud, Security, and ITSM teams to drive automation maturity.

What You'll Need:

• 5-7+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.

• Expertlevel proficiency with Ansible (playbooks, roles, collections, Jinja2, modules).

• Handson experience designing and operating Ansible Automation Platform (AAP).

• Strong experience with Terraform, Chef, or other IaC tools.

• Deep Linux engineering background and configuration management expertise.

• Experience integrating automation with ServiceNow (CMDB, ITSM, workflows).

• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell).

• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP automation.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerization, and orchestration.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience implementing Agentic AI or AIOpsdriven automation.

• Experience with eventdriven automation (StackStorm, EventBridge, Rundeck).

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

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