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Are you looking to take the next steps in your career as a Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Consultant? Let's chat and see if we are a good match!
Opportunity:
Virtual Service Operations is looking for an experienced Consultant with deep expertise in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to support a DoD customer's enterprise automation work. This is a hands-on technical role. The consultant will design, deploy and operate AAP, and build automation content that cuts down manual work across the customer's infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
Design, install, configure and upgrade Ansible Automation Platform (automation controller, private automation hub, Event-Driven Ansible)
Develop, test and maintain playbooks, roles and collections that automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, patching and compliance
Build and manage execution environments with ansible-builder, and publish content through private automation hub Integrate AAP with source control, CI/CD pipelines, credential and secrets management, and identity providers (LDAP/AD, SAML) Set up RBAC, organizations, teams, inventories and job templates in automation controller
Automate security hardening and compliance (STIG, DISA, SCAP) across RHEL and Windows systems
Troubleshoot automation failures and platform issues, and tune performance
Document architecture, runbooks and standards, and train customer staff on automation best practices
Skills and Experience:
Ansible Automation Platform: Hands-on experience with AAP 2.x: automation controller, private automation hub, execution environments, and ansible-navigator/ansible-builder
Automation development: Strong skills writing playbooks, roles and custom collections; Jinja2 templating; YAML; dynamic inventories
Linux: Advanced RHEL administration (RHEL 8/9)
Integrations: Git-based workflows (GitLab/GitHub), CI/CD pipelines, and REST API integrations
Security/compliance: Experience automating STIG remediation and working in secure, disconnected or air-gapped environments
Scripting: Python and/or Bash
RH Ansible Automation Platform Certification
Requirements
5 - 7 years of professional experience
Must be willing to work remotely
Must hold an active Top Secret clearance
Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires U.S. citizenship status
What is Important to Us:
You are an excellent communicator in writing and speaking.
You have the ability to work independently but also value teamwork.
Your problem-solving skills are excellent.
You are looking for a job where performance appraisals occur regularly, and you look forward to advancing your career.
You seek a community of virtue-centered co-workers and clients.
What we offer you: As part of the VSO company, you will be part of a virtue-centered team who value their work and teammates. This is a no-jerk zone. We provide ongoing learning and development opportunities to foster continuous growth. We offer competitive salaries, health benefits, and flexible work arrangements.
More About VSO: VSO is a hybrid cloud and managed services consulting firm. Much of VSO’s success can be attributed to our deep partnerships with IT services industry leaders such as AWS, IBM, Microsoft and others. VSO leverages numerous other partner relationships so as to provide our customers with optimal support. Additionally, we take pride in taking care of our employees. We offer a wide variety of benefits for eligible employees related to health, retirement, professional development, and more! For more information, please visit our website at https://vso-inc.com/careers
Salary Description
$90,000 - $170,000
Work arrangement
Yes
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