Full Description

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POSITION

Automation Engineer

LOCATION

Remote

DURATION

8-12 months+

Required Skills

Data Center Automation Engineer (ServiceNow / Ansible / SharePoint)

Summary

We're looking for a hands-on Automation Engineer to design, build, and maintain automation across our data center environment, with a focus on ServiceNow workflow/orchestration, Ansible playbooks/pipelines, and SharePoint automation for documentation, approvals, and knowledge management. The ideal candidate brings strong infrastructure fundamentals (Linux/Windows/networking/storage), IaC mindset, and a track record of translating manual runbooks into reliable, scalable, and auditable automation.

Key Responsibilities

ServiceNow Automation & Integration Design and implement Service Catalog, Workflows, Approvals, Notification rules, and Orchestration/Flows for provisioning, incident, change, and request processes. Build ServiceNow integrations with CMDB, discovery, monitoring, and automation tools (e.g., Ansible Tower/AWX) using REST, webhooks, and MID servers. Maintain CMDB data quality and drive data center CI relationships/attributes alignment with automation. Ansible & Infrastructure as Code Develop, version, and maintain Ansible roles/playbooks for OS builds, patching, configuration drift remediation, middleware/app deployments, and compliance hardening (RHEL/Windows). Operate/analyze Ansible Tower/AWX job templates, inventories, credentials, workflows, RBAC, and notifications; integrate with CI/CD and ServiceNow. Implement idempotent automation with guardrails, testing, and rollbacks; manage secrets (e.g., Ansible Vault). SharePoint Automation & Knowledge Ops Automate document lifecycle (runbooks, SOPs, change records, test evidence) using Power Automate, SharePoint REST/Graph API, and templated sites/lists/libraries. Build approval workflows, metadata tagging, retention, and structured repositories aligned to audit/compliance needs. Create self-service knowledge portals and dashboards for operations teams. Operations & Reliability Convert manual data center tasks (provisioning, patching, backup checks, standard changes) into automated jobs with observability, logging, and alerting. Contribute to runbooks, UAT plans, and post-implementation reviews; drive continuous improvement and SLO/SLA adherence. Partner with SMEs (network, storage, virtualization, backup, security) to prioritize and deliver automation backlogs. Qualifications (Must-Haves)

5 8+ years in infrastructure/operations/automation (data center or large enterprise).

ServiceNow: Workflows/Flow Designer, Catalog/Request, Change/Incident, CMDB, Integrations (REST/MID), basic scripting (JavaScript/Glide).