Senior Automation Engineer (m/f/d)

About the Position

We are looking for a Senior Automation Engineer with advanced experience in Ansible, AWX, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (RHAAP/AAP), Python, and Git to join a service focused on evolving and enhancing the client's automation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the automation backlog: analyse requests, gather requirements, support prioritisation, and track progress.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain automation solutions using Ansible and Python, applying best practices in quality, reusability, security, and operational maintainability.
• Apply Configuration as Code principles to platform and automation configurations, maintaining them in repositories and ensuring changes are subject to review and controlled promotion.
• Administer and support AWX, including organisations, projects, inventories, credentials, permissions and RBAC, jobs, workflows, schedules, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Create, adapt, and maintain Execution Environments, managing images, dependencies, and collections.
• Review and improve existing Ansible content and prepare it for evolution and migration to RHAAP/AAP.
• Support the configuration, operation, and lifecycle management of RHAAP/AAP, including the progressive migration of content and schedules from AWX and validation with process owners.
• Prepare automation solutions to be triggered from ServiceNow and collaborate with the team responsible for the platform on integration design, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Participate in the automation of the DigiCert certificate lifecycle, including issuance, renewal, deployment, and monitoring.
• Apply code review, testing, change management, and traceability practices.
• Analyse and resolve incidents affecting AWX/RHAAP and delivered automation solutions, including root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions.
• Produce technical documentation, operating procedures, and supporting evidence.
• Conduct knowledge-transfer sessions with the client's team, where appropriate.
• Report on backlog progress, deliveries, KPIs, incidents, and service risks.

Requirements

Essential Technical Requirements:

• Strong senior-level experience with Ansible and AWX, developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting automation solutions in production environments.
• Advanced experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (RHAAP/AAP).
• Strong command of playbooks, roles, and collections, as well as inventories, variables, handlers, dependencies, and reusable structures.
• Experience administering and operating AWX, including organisations, projects, inventories, credentials, permissions and RBAC, job templates, workflows, schedules, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Execution Environments, including creating or adapting images, managing dependencies and collections, and troubleshooting execution issues.
• Advanced Python programming skills, with the ability to develop maintainable tools, modules, integrations, and automation solutions, as well as analyse and debug existing code.
• Advanced experience with Git in collaborative environments, including branch management, merge requests, code reviews, conflict resolution, version tagging, and change traceability.
• Ability to define and implement Git workflows supporting Configuration as Code and controlled promotion of changes across environments.
• Strong Linux knowledge and experience using Bash for scripting.
• Experience testing, documenting, and supporting automation solutions in production environments.
• Ability to analyse complex incidents and work autonomously.

Soft Skills

• Autonomy and technical judgement appropriate for a senior-level role.
• Ability to organise work and manage priorities within a changing backlog.
• Proactive mindset and focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong attention to quality, security, traceability, and solution maintainability.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills when working with platform, ServiceNow, security, and process-owner teams.
• Willingness to share knowledge and strengthen the autonomy of the client's team.
• Ability to clearly communicate progress, blockers, risks, and technical decisions.

We Offer

Work environment & flexibility

• International, dynamic and collaborative environment.
• T-Social: social initiatives (sports, community, health,...).
• Hybrid work model (remote/on-site).
• Flexible working hours.

Growth & development

• Customized training: access to Coursera to learn whatever you want, whenever you want.
• Weekly language classes (English & German).
• International Mentoring Sessions & Experience Days.

Compensation & benefits

• Flexible compensation plan (health insurance, meal vouchers, childcare, transport).
• Telemedicine.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Social fund.

Wellbeing & time off

• 26+ working days of vacation per year.
• Free access to specialist services (medical, legal, wellness).
• 100% salary coverage during medical leave.

And many more advantages of being part of T-Systems!

About the Company

T‑Systems is part of the Deutsche Telekom Group, with around 30.000 employees worldwide. We create technology with purpose to generate a positive impact on society. We are looking for curious talent, eager to learn, take on challenges, and contribute ideas that transform our customers’ experience.

We trust people: we offer autonomy, continuous support, and a collaborative environment where you can grow without limits. We are one global team, guided by respect, integrity, and a passion for doing better every day.

If you are looking for a new challenge, do not hesitate to send us your CV! Please send CV in English. Join our team!

T-Systems Iberia will only process the CVs of candidates who meet the requirements specified for each offer.