Ansible Automation Engineer - Infrastructure

Operations

Service MVS+ - Tooling, automation and continual improvement

Indicative demand Headcount to be confirmed against the approved

MVS+ RLS

Location Offshore / approved secure delivery location

Working model Business-hours engineering with planned change-

window support

Experience guide 4-8 years in Ansible automation for server hardware and infrastructure operations

Role Purpose

Develop and maintain governed automation for physical-server discovery, telemetry collection, firmware and entitlement assessment, inventory reconciliation, risk correlation, workflow orchestration, authorised remediation and post-action verification within the UBS control environment.

Key Responsibilities

 Design reusable Ansible roles, playbooks and workflows for in-scope physical-server operational use cases.

 Automate read-only discovery of server identity, components, health, firmware, entitlement and lifecycle data through approved APIs and interfaces.

 Build compliance checks against UBS-approved firmware and hardware-configuration baselines.

 Automate evidence collection, exception identification, inventory reconciliation and reporting data preparation.

 Implement approved remediation workflows with pre-checks, approval gates, maintenance-window controls, rollback and post-validation.

 Integrate Ansible workflows with approved ITSM, CMDB, monitoring and reporting interfaces where authorised.

 Use secure credential handling, RBAC, vaulting, logging and immutable execution evidence.

 Develop test plans, mock/lab validation, pilot execution, release controls and support documentation.

 Troubleshoot failed jobs and API errors without causing uncontrolled production change.

 Measure automation value through reduced manual effort, higher consistency,



improved compliance and verifiable service outcomes.

Mandatory Skills and Experience

 Strong Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform/AWX experience.

 Proficiency with YAML, Jinja2, Git, REST APIs, JSON and Python or PowerShell.

 Experience automating HPE iLO/Redfish/OneView, Dell iDRAC/Redfish/OpenManage or Lenovo

XClarity environments.

 Understanding of idempotency, check mode, error handling, retries, rollback and structured logging.

 CI/CD and code-review practices for infrastructure automation.

 Secure secrets management and least-privilege automation design.

 Working knowledge of server hardware, firmware and data-centre operational processes.

Internal - General

Use

Preferred Skills and Certifications

 Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation.

 Experience with ServiceNow APIs, CMDB reconciliation and event-driven automation.

 Knowledge of Redfish, vendor Ansible collections and firmware repositories.

 Experience in regulated environments with segregation of duties and audit controls.

 Exposure to Splunk or Power BI data feeds for operational reporting.

Expected Outcomes

 Safe, repeatable and supportable automation.

 Documented approval, test, release and rollback controls.

 Accurate operational evidence and audit trails.

 Measurable reduction in manual discovery and compliance effort.

 No unauthorized changes or unsupported platform automation.

Role Boundaries

 Automation may operate only within approved UBS tools, interfaces, credentials and authority.

 UBS retains policy, architecture, change approval and risk acceptance.

 No autonomous production remediation without the approved control path.

 Application, OS and hypervisor automation is excluded unless separately approved and contracted.

 Custom integration or recent tooling requires explicit scope, security and commercial approval.

📌 Ansible Automation Engineer (Pune)
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