Automation Engineer Ansible & Terraform — F5 BIG-IP (DevOps Eng).

: We are looking for an engineer to automate and extend F5 BIG-IP configurations and cloud deployments using Ansible. The role involves developing playbooks and custom modules, integrating Jira with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) via Event-Driven Ansible (EDA), managing WAF policies, and setting up observability in GCP/Azure and Splunk. We would also expect candidate to have knowledge and experience on developing new Terraform resources/data sources, fixing provider bugs, improving tests and documentation, and integrating with F5 BIG-IP APIs such as iControl REST, AS3, DO, LTM, GTM, Network, System, and AWAF/ASM features.

Responsibilities Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and custom modules for F5 BIG-IP. Build or update Terraform resources and data sources Troubleshoot configuration drift, CRUD lifecycle issues, import behavior, and acceptance tests. Write unit and acceptance tests against BIG-IP environments.

Build

Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) rulebooks triggered by Jira webhooks to automate workflows in AAP. Integrate with F5 BIG-IP APIs using AS3, DO, tmsh, LTM, GTM, and AWAF/ASM features. Work with F5 Virtual Editions (VE) and networking in GCP and Azure. Set up observability, logging, and monitoring using Splunk and native cloud systems. Support releases, CI/CD,



linting, and dependency updates. Troubleshoot end-to-end application traffic paths (Virtual Servers to backend pool members).

Write

Bash scripts and manage Git workflows (PRs, reviews, CI/CD).

Required Skills Strong Ansible development experience (Playbooks, Roles, Collections, AAP).

Experience with Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) and webhook integrations. Hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP (LTM, GTM/DNS, ASM/AWAF, AS3, DO).

Networking knowledge: virtual servers, pools, monitors, routing, SSL profiles, load balancing.

Experience developing or maintaining Terraform Providers Familiarity with REST APIs and JSON.

Valuable understanding of Terraform concepts: resources, data sources, schemas, state, importers, diff suppression, lifecycle behavior. Cloud networking experience in GCP and/or Azure.

Experience with observability tools: Splunk and native cloud logging/monitoring. Proficiency in Git and Bash scripting. Nice to Have Python development experience (for custom Ansible modules). F5 certification or production BIG-IP administration experience.

Experience with HashiCorp Terraform Plugin SDK Red Hat Ansible certifications. Knowledge of GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.

Experience debugging provider acceptance tests

📌 Automation Engineer Ansible & Terraform (Bengaluru)
🏢 Intelligenz IT
📍 Bengaluru