VPS provides managed learning services for commercial, government, and military organizations. Its work spans curriculum development, training strategy, and learning administration, using learning technology and collaboration to help clients deliver workforce training and build skills. VPS operates in education, government, and cybersecurity, and its company profile lists a team of 1,001–5,000 employees.
Senior Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Consultant
Design and operate Ansible Automation Platform for a Department of Defense customer, automating secure RHEL and Windows environments. Join VPS, a hybrid cloud services firm, in a remote consulting role.
Description
- Support a Department of Defense customer's enterprise automation work
- Design, install, configure, and upgrade Ansible Automation Platform, including automation controller, private automation hub, and Event-Driven Ansible
- Develop, test, and maintain playbooks, roles, and collections for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, patching, and compliance
- Build and manage execution environments with ansible-builder
- Publish automation content through private automation hub
- Connect AAP to source control, CI/CD pipelines, credential and secrets management, and identity providers such as LDAP/AD and SAML
- Set up RBAC, organizations, teams, inventories, and job templates in automation controller
- Automate security hardening and compliance against STIG, DISA, and SCAP requirements across RHEL and Windows systems
- Diagnose automation failures and platform issues, and improve performance
- Document architecture, operating procedures, and standards
- Train customer staff in automation best practices
Requirements
- Practical experience with Ansible Automation Platform 2.x, including automation controller, private automation hub, execution environments, ansible-navigator, and ansible-builder
- Strong ability to write playbooks, roles, and custom collections
- Experience with Jinja2 templates, YAML, and dynamic inventories
- Advanced administration of RHEL 8 and 9
- Experience with Git-based workflows, including GitLab or GitHub
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and REST API integrations
- Experience automating STIG remediation
- Experience in secure, disconnected, or air-gapped environments
- Python and/or Bash scripting skills
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform certification
- 5–7 years of professional experience
- Willingness to work remotely
- Active Top Secret clearance
- U.S. citizenship
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Strong problem-solving skills
Benefits
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Competitive pay
- Health benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Health, retirement, and professional development benefits for eligible employees
- A values-centered team and colleagues
- Regular performance reviews
- Career advancement opportunities