Job Title – 3 x Senior Ansible Engineer

Client: Services Australia

Location: QLD, ACT, VIC, NSW, SA

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Security Clearance: NV1 (Mandatory)

Contract Length: 12 months + 2 × 12-month extensions

Job details The Ansible Engineer 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 perks 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




- Experienced in automation, DevOps, platform engineering, or managed services.
- Strong experience with Ansible playbooks, roles, inventories, variables, handlers, templates, modules, and reusable automation
- Strong 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

Criteria The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters.

Essential criteria

- Methods and tools: Level 5 (SFIA)

Provides advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards. Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards. Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools. Implements methods and tools at programme, project and team levels including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards. Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools. Identifies and recommends improvements.
- Programming/software development: Level 5 (SFIA)

- Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development. Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.

- Software configuration: Level 5 (SFIA)





Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of configuration development and deployment. Plans and drives software configuration activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software configuration methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors the application of standards for configuration design and deployment including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software configuration design and deployment.
- Specialist advice: Level 4 (SFIA)

Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism to the organisation's planning and operations. Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge. Where appropriate, collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice given is appropriate to the organisation's needs.
- Systems integration and build: Level 5 (SFIA)

Plans and drives activities to develop organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework. Provides authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of systems integration. Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design. Assesses risks and takes preventative action. Measures and monitors applications of standards. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration.
- Testing: Level 4 (SFIA)

Selects appropriate testing approach, including manual and automated testing. Develops and executes test plans and test cases. Implements scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks. Collaborates across parties involved in product, systems or service design and development to enable comprehensive test coverage. Identifies improvements in requirements, design or specification processes to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of testing. Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks, including the work of others.

📌 Senior Ansible Engineer (Australia)
🏢 Cavum Consulting
📍 Australia