One of our leading federal govt clients is seeking to engage Senior Automation/DevOps/Ansible Developer for Canberra, Brisbane and Melbourne

Please note Candidates must have NV1 security clearance

- Initial contract duration-12 months
- Extension term-24 months
- Experience level- EL1 equivalent
- Location of work-Canberra, Brisbane and Melbourne

Job details

Software Engineers have experience overseeing software development projects, writing optimised code, and provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers. They are responsible for the quality and functionality of the software produced by their team.

The Ansible Developers will be responsible for the provision of expertise in delivering automation solutions using the agency’s automation tool, Ansible, to support the objectives and agreed benefits for the Service Management & Self-Healing Automation Project.

The role will contribute to the design, architecture and delivery of automation solutions using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Python and PowerShell, helping drive automation adoption.This will ensure the required automation outcomes are delivered successfully

Key duties and responsibilities

- Develop, test and support enterprise automation using Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform, including playbooks, roles, inventories, workflows, APIs, and integration with enterprise infrastructure and ITSM processes.
- Design automation that considers operational support, stakeholder communication, change management, failure handling, logging, monitoring and clear escalation paths Design, develop and deploy automation,



workflow and AI-enabled solutions that reduce manual effort, improve productivity, and create workforce capacity
- Design and deliver automation across infrastructure, cloud, networks, security, and ITSM
- Provide technical guidance and subject matter expertise across automation and AI initiatives
- Contribute to testing, deployment, release management and operational readiness activities for automation and AI solutions

Technical skills

- Experience with Git/GitLab CI/CD / automation-as-code
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale automation and technology transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to document technical designs, support arrangements, implementation steps, and knowledge transfer material to enable sustainable handover.
- Ability to work with a range of technical and business staff including platform teams, database administrators, Linux engineers, project delivery teams, and business stakeholders to confirm requirements and validate outcomes

Technical skills

- Experienced in automation, DevOps, platform engineering, or managed services. • Strong experience with Ansible playbooks, roles, inventories, variables, handlers, templates, modules, and reusable automation • Solid RHEL/Linux administration, patching, services, packages, permissions, filesystems, and troubleshooting • Strong automation development skills in Python scripting for custom automation, REST API interaction and extending Ansible where required

If you would like to apply for the above role, then please send your updated resume with Cover Letter to [email protected]

📌 Senior Automation/DevOps/Ansible Developer-Canberra, Brisbane and Melbourne
🏢 IT Alliance Australia
📍 Canberra