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# Automation Engineer Ansible & DevOps

- **Company:** New York, Inc.
- **Location:** St. Louis, MO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Linux, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Python (Programming Language), Ansible, Shell Script, Software Deployment, Git Flow, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Software Version Control, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/0bdad7e0-d588-4838-afbd-462456e3612b

## About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Automation Engineer - Ansible & DevOps with strong experience in Ansible Automation Platform, Jenkins, Python, Linux, Infrastructure as Code, and enterprise CI/CD., Advanced Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform experience.

Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD orchestration.

Python and Linux scripting.

Infrastructure as Code, Git-based workflows, and API integration.

Experience automating high-risk production maintenance and recovery procedures.

Preferred experience

Network and application traffic-drain automation.

Policy-based access control and enterprise change-management integration.

Mission-critical infrastructure or transaction-processing environments

## Description

Senior engineer, ordinarily 6 or more years of relevant automation or DevOps experience.

Automate traffic draining, maintenance, patching, software deployment, validation, and recovery workflows so operations are safe, repeatable, and auditable.

Core responsibilities

Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and orchestration workflows.

Integrate proxy controls with patching, IPL/restart, and software-release processes.

Build pre-checks, post-checks, health validation, rollback, and manual fallback procedures.

Integrate automation with Jenkins and enterprise CI/CD pipelines.

Apply source control, testing, approval, promotion, access-control, and audit standards to automation.

Produce operational playbooks that BizOps can execute safely.