Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer (Ansible)

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Remote: Yes

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Position

Software Mind develops solutions that make an impact for companies around the globe. Tech giants & unicorns, transformative projects, emerging technologies and limitless opportunities – these are a few words that describe an average day for us. Building cross-functional engineering teams that take ownership and crave more means we’re always on the lookout for talented people who bring passion and creativity to every project. Our culture embraces openness, acts with respect, shows grit & guts and combines employment with enjoyment.

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer to help build an automation practice for a leading IT infrastructure provider in the Netherlands.

Responsibilities

• Writing Ansible automation - playbooks, roles, modules, and collections
• Help shape the automation practice: standards, repository structure, and code review process
• Patch management automation
• Deployment automation
• Configuration management
• Systems and process automation
• Project-driven infrastructure transformations
• Support, configure, and manage the automation platform
• Automation-related code review and maintenance across the team
• CI/CD configuration and management for automation code
• Define and maintain the inventory and source of truth the automation runs against
• Introduce testing for automation code
• Work with engineers maintaining the estate to identify what should be automated next
• Share knowledge with the team
• Produce and maintain the technical documentation

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge and experience in using, configuring, and maintaining automation platforms, preferably AAP/AWX
• Understanding best practices for writing and maintaining Ansible code and repositories
• Developing Ansible playbooks, roles, and modules; maintaining Ansible collections
• Using Ansible to manage systems and processes at scale
• Advanced understanding of IaC principles
• Practical experience with patch management across both Linux and Windows systems
• Experience working across various Linux distributions
• Programming skills, preferably Python
• Solid Git and version control practice applied to automation code
• Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation
• English at C1 level

Nice to Have

• OpenStack experience
• Experience consolidating scattered automation into a single, consistent practice
• Experience setting technical standards and getting a team to adopt them
• Good understanding of virtualization concepts
• Puppet experience
• Experience migrating from another configuration management tool to Ansible
• Testing frameworks for Ansible (e.g., Molecule)
• Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana)
• IPAM, IAM
• Basic networking, system firewalls, storage
• Red Hat / Ansible certifications

We Offer

• Flexible and remote cooperation options
• International projects with leading global clients
• Travels related to international projects
• Non-corporate atmosphere
• Access to language classes
• Access to knowledge-sharing initiatives
• Access to private healthcare and life insurance
• Access to multisport card

The availability and terms of individual benefits may vary depending on the chosen form of cooperation.