Ansible AI Engineer Lead

EAPPS TECH LLC dba Magicforce is seeking an Ansible AI Engineer Lead for a contract role based in Chicago, IL (Day 1 onsite). This position centers on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) 2.x automation development, with an emphasis on AI-assisted workflow creation and optimization, as well as infrastructure provisioning use cases.

Working within Magicforce’s automation environment, you will build and manage Ansible-based solutions across playbooks, roles, and workflow templates, while also handling orchestration and integrations using REST APIs, ServiceNow, and CI/CD and GitOps practices. The role is supported by Claude Code for AI-assisted code generation, refactoring, debugging, and documentation.

What You’ll Do

• Develop Ansible playbooks and structure automation using Ansible roles, collections, and workflow templates
• Implement configuration management and configuration as code approaches
• Deliver infrastructure automation including server build and provisioning
• Automate configuration drift remediation and manage OS and middleware configuration
• Create automation for patch and compliance, along with operational task automation and infrastructure lifecycle automation
• Build self-service automation capabilities
• Support a Git/GitHub based automation lifecycle aligned with CI/CD and GitOps practices
• Use Python scripting, including YAML/Jinja2 for automation logic and templating
• Integrate automation via REST APIs and orchestrate automation using API-based methods
• Administer Automation Controller and Automation Hub
• Implement Event-Driven Ansible for event-triggered automation
• Apply AI-assisted development for playbook development and optimization, including debugging and troubleshooting
• Use Claude Code for AI-assisted code generation and refactoring, plus AI-assisted documentation generation
• Perform prompt engineering for infrastructure automation

Integrations and Workflow Alignment

• Work with ServiceNow integration for ITSM workflow integration
• Enable CI/CD integration and align deliverables with GitOps practices

Required Skills

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) 2.x
• Ansible playbook development
• Experience with Ansible roles, collections, and workflow templates
• Configuration management and configuration as code
• Infrastructure automation and server build and provisioning automation
• Git/GitHub based automation lifecycle with CI/CD and GitOps practices
• Python scripting
• YAML and Jinja2
• REST API integration
• Automation Controller and Automation Hub administration
• Event-Driven Ansible
• Experience with Claude Code for AI-assisted code generation and refactoring, plus related AI-assisted development tasks
• Prompt engineering for infrastructure automation
• ServiceNow integration, API-based orchestration, and ITSM workflow integration

Location: Chicago, IL (onsite, Day 1). Compensation: USD 60 - 80 per hour. Job type: contract. Duration: 12+ months.