Automation Solution Consultant - Senior (ONSITE) JP219
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Original job description
We are seeking a Senior Ansible Automation Engineer to lead automation initiatives within a large enterprise IT operations environment. This role is responsible for designing and implementing automation solutions that improve consistency, security, and operational efficiency across enterprise Windows and Linux server infrastructure.
The successful candidate will combine deep Ansible automation expertise with advanced systems administration experience across Windows Server (2019/2022) and enterprise Linux platforms, supporting large-scale operational environments with strong governance, reliability, and compliance requirements.
This is a hands-on technical role focused on reducing manual operational work through automation while ensuring stability, security, and scalability of production systems.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Automation & Standardization
- Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade automation using Ansible across Windows and Linux environments.
- Build reusable Ansible roles, playbooks, inventories, and automation frameworks aligned with enterprise standards.
- Establish automation governance, coding standards, and reusable automation patterns, while maintaining source-controlled automation repositories and documentation.
- Automate provisioning, configuration management, compliance enforcement, and operational workflows, reducing manual administration across the enterprise.
- Lead the transition from manual administration to automation-first operations.
- Design and implement phased patch deployment strategies (Dev Test UAT Production) ensuring environment promotion discipline.
- Automate end-to-end patch lifecycle management using Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager APIs, PowerShell modules, WSUS integration, and ADR (Automatic Deployment Rules).
- Automate maintenance window execution, change sequencing, pre- and post-deployment validation, rollback procedures, and compliance verification aligned with enterprise ITIL processes.
- Build approval-gated promotion pipelines with reporting dashboards to ensure auditability, production stability, and compliance adherence.
- Optimize patch baselines, supersedence management, deployment scheduling, and automated remediation workflows for large-scale server environments.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Senior Ansible Automation Engineer at Pathlion will design and maintain automation that reduces manual server administration. The role also builds phased, approval-gated patch deployment pipelines and sets automation governance standards.
Requirements
Candidates need deep Ansible expertise and advanced systems administration experience on Windows Server 2019/2022 and enterprise Linux. Experience with Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, PowerShell, WSUS and ITIL change processes is expected.
Skills
- Ansible
- Ansible roles and playbooks
- Ansible inventories
- PowerShell
- WSUS
- Automatic Deployment Rules
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2022
- Linux server administration
- Enterprise Linux
- Patch lifecycle management
- Configuration management
- Compliance enforcement
- Source control
- Git
- Automation governance
- ITIL change management
- Rollback procedures
- Infrastructure as Code
Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Engineering
Keywords
- Ansible
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2022
- Linux
- MECM
- SCCM
- WSUS
- PowerShell
- Automatic Deployment Rules
- patch management
- configuration management
- infrastructure automation
- ITIL
- systems administration
- automation engineer
- DevOps
- compliance automation
- Infrastructure as Code
Seniority
Senior
Tools
- Ansible
- PowerShell
- WSUS
- Windows Server
- Linux