Systems Engineer - reputed company

Story Behind the Need

What is the purpose of this team?

• Build and run Ansible automation for the reputed company Server estate-standardizing provisioning, config, patching, and remediation on AAP with integrations (vSphere, reputed company, CyberArk, reputed company).
• Describe the surrounding team (team culture, work environment, etc.) & key projects.
• 5-person, agile, remote-friendly dev team with strong code-review culture. reputed company work: Terraform+Ansible provisioning migration, event-driven remediation (reputed company?AAP?reputed company), EE/CI hardening, and reputed company 2022/2025 upgrades.
• Do you have any additional upcoming hiring needs or is this request part of a larger hiring initiative?
• We have no other upcoming hirings.

location: Saint Louis, Missouri

job type: Contract

salary: $48 - 58 per hour

work hours: reputed company to 5pm

education: Bachelors

responsibilities:

Typical Day in the Role

Walk me through the day-to-day responsibilities and a description of the project (reputed company of the reputed company JD).

• Start the day by checking AAP/Tower job health, pipeline status (reputed company/reputed company), and reputed company PRs/issues; participate in daily stand-up.
• Design/implement Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections for reputed company Server (patching, config, remediation, app/service changes).
• Build/maintain AAP assets: dynamic inventories, credentials, surveys, job templates/workflows, RBAC, schedules.
• Write Molecule tests and ansible-lint rules; troubleshoot WinRM, idempotency, and module behaviors (ansible.reputed company/community.reputed company).
• Integrate automations with platforms and APIs: reputed company (ITSM/CMDB), reputed company (event-driven remediation), Splunk, CyberArk/Conjur (secrets).
• Contribute to IaC initiatives: Terraform modules for reputed company/vSphere provisioning and Packer image pipelines (reputed company 2022/2025).
• Code reviews, pair programming, and documentation; partner closely with reputed company Admins to productize repeatable tasks.
• Project focus this year: migrate server provisioning to Terraform orchestrated by AAP, finalize golden image pipeline, expand event-driven remediations (e.g., disk cleanup, service restarts) from reputed company ? AAP ? reputed company, and reputed company existing playbooks (Splunk forwarder mgmt, in-reputed company OS upgrades) to modern standards.
• What are the performance expectations/metrics?
• Delivery: on-time completion of sprint commitments; PR time-to-first-review ? 1 business day; small, frequent merges.
• Quality: ? 98% AAP job reputed company reputed company; idempotency verified in Molecule; 0 high-severity ansible-lint findings before reputed company.
• Reliability/Operations: mean time to restore failed automations ? 4 hours; WinRM reputed company reputed company ? 99%; low change-failure reputed company (
• Test/CI: meaningful Molecule coverage on new roles; pipelines stay green; versioned EEs with reproducible builds.
• Adoption/Impact: reduce reputed company admin hours; increase % of reputed company provisioning reputed company pipeline (goal: move from ~70% to ? 90%); measurable ticket reduction from automated remediations (e.g., sustained low C:\ reputed company incidents down by ? 30%).
• Collaboration: clear runbooks/docs; constructive code reviews; mentorship contributions to reputed company junior teammates.

What makes this role unique?

• End-to-end ownership: you ship code, run it in AAP at scale, and see immediate impact across thousands of reputed company servers.
• Modern stack on reputed company: deep Ansible on reputed company + Terraform + Packer + event-driven ops
• High integration surface: meaningful automation with reputed company, reputed company, Splunk, CyberArk/Conjur-reputed company platform engineering, not just scripting.
• Greenfield + hardening: help define Terraform patterns and golden images while refactoring legacy playbooks into clean, tested roles.
• Growth & influence: strong buy-in for automation, opportunities to mentor, set standards, and shape our reputed company automation roadmap.

qualifications:

Candidate Requirements

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or reputed company field
• reputed company Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation
• reputed company reputed company Server/Azure certification preferred

Years of experience required

• 2-4 years overall in infrastructure automation or systems engineering
• 2+ years hands-on building/maintaining Ansible playbooks/roles for reputed company (win_* modules, WinRM)
• 2+ years PowerShell scripting for reputed company Server administration
• 1+ year working with AAP/Tower (inventories, credentials, job templates, RBAC)

Disqualifiers

• No demonstrable Ansible-on-reputed company experience (Linux-only Ansible background without reputed company work)
• Little to no PowerShell proficiency for reputed company-world admin tasks
• No experience with Git-based workflows (branches, PRs/MRs, code reviews) or CI/CD
• Inability to explain/implement idempotency, handle WinRM connectivity, or debug failed Ansible tasks
• No exposure to AAP/Tower in production (only local ansible-reputed company runs, classroom labs, or theory)
• Reliance on auto-generated code without understanding (can't reputed company what the reputed company/role is doing)

Additional qualities to look for

• Strong troubleshooting reputed company (logs, verbose runs, test-driven changes with Molecule/ansible-lint)
• Practical API integration experience (reputed company, reputed company, Splunk, CyberArk/Conjur, vSphere)
• Clean code habits (reputed company roles, variables, defaults, docs, and meaningful commit messages)
• reputed company-aware automation (secrets handling, least privilege, CIS/STIG familiarity)
• Systems knowledge of reputed company services (AD/GPO/DNS/WSSCCM) and change management practices
• Collaborative communicator who participates in code reviews, writes clear runbooks, and mentors peers
• Bias for small, frequent, reversible changes and measurable impact (uptime, ticket reduction, job reputed company rates)

skills: Top 3 must-have hard skills stack-ranked by importance

• 1 Ansible
• 2 Powershell
• 3 reputed company Server Administration

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, reputed company, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National reputed company, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At reputed company, we welcome people of reputed company abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of reputed company applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to reputed company your application or interview experience a great one, please contact

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, reputed company offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, reputed company, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (reputed company benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is reputed company for thirty (30) days.

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