**Role & seniority: ** Junior Automation Engineer

**Location & work type: ** Asia; secure infrastructure & operational automation (regional coverage)

**Stack/tools: **

Ansible (playbooks, templates, workflows)
GitHub (source control, peer review, release practices)
APIs integration
ServiceNow
Inventories (e.g., inventory/config data sources)
Cloud services
Enterprise platforms

**Top 3 responsibilities: **

Develop, test, document, and maintain reusable Ansible automation (playbooks/scripts/templates/workflows).
Implement safe automation practices: input validation, logging, exception handling, testing evidence, recovery considerations.
Coordinate with infrastructure/operations/service management to standardize solutions across countries; manage lifecycle support (monitoring, troubleshooting, documentation, KT, continuous improvement, compliance).

**Must-have skills: **

Proficiency with Ansible for infrastructure/ops automation
Ability to build reliable, secure, supportable automation (validation, logging, error handling, testing evidence)
GitHub-based development workflow (branching/PR/peer review/release discipline)
Clear documentation and operational troubleshooting skills
Understanding of security/compliance expectations (access/change/automation standards)

**Nice-to-haves: **

Experience integrating with **ServiceNow

Full Description

The Junior Automation Engineer is responsible for developing, testing, and supporting secure infrastructure and operational automation across Asia. Guided by our purpose, “always with you, building a more confident future,” and our New Frontier strategy focused on stronger growth, attractive returns, and all-weather performance, this is an exciting opportunity to reduce manual effort, improve service reliability, and build reusable automation that supports technology teams across the region.

Develop, test, document, and maintain reusable Ansible playbooks, scripts, templates, and workflows for approved infrastructure and operational use cases. Create safe and supportable automation with input validation, logging, exception handling, testing evidence, and appropriate recovery considerations. Coordinate with infrastructure, operations and service management teams to translate regional and country requirements into standardized solutions. Manage automation code through approved GitHub source-control, peer-review, and release practices, and support integrations with APIs, ServiceNow, inventories, cloud services, and enterprise platforms. Provide lifecycle support for automation, including monitoring, troubleshooting, documentation, knowledge transfer, continuous improvement, and compliance with applicable MetLife security, access, change, and automation standards.