LEAD Ansible Automation

City: Pune

State/Province: Maharashtra

Posting Start Date: 4/6/26

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Job Description:

Job Description

The Technical Lead - Automation will lead the technical delivery of server software lifecycle automation, owning solution design, standards, governance, and team execution across Windows and UNIX/RHEL streams. The role will ensure automation aligns with enterprise controls, integrates with ServiceNow, and delivers measurable operational efficiency and compliance outcomes.

Technical Leadership & Governance

• Own end-to-end technical delivery for automation workstreams, including solution architecture, delivery planning, quality controls, and release governance.
• Define and enforce automation standards (coding conventions, modularization, reuse, security practices, credential handling, naming/versioning).
• Establish operating model for Ansible Tower/AWX/AAP usage: RBAC model, inventory strategy, credential segregation, workflow orchestration standards, and audit logs.

Solution Delivery & Integration

• Lead design and implementation of automation for lifecycle stages (requirements → assessment → planning → execution → handover/support). [
• Drive ServiceNow integration architecture for automation triggers and ticket lifecycle updates (incidents/changes/requests/CMDB sync/approvals).
• Ensure design includes pre/post checks, rollback planning, exception handling, and compliance evidence generation.

Engineering Execution & Mentoring

• Guide Senior Developers and Engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and troubleshooting of complex defects.
• Act as escalation point for L3/L4 issues involving automation failures, platform edge cases, and integration reliability.
• Drive documentation completeness (runbooks, SOPs, KT artifacts) and ensure operations readiness for steady-state.

• Deep hands-on expertise in Ansible automation (advanced roles, patterns, templating, idempotency, modular design).
• Strong administration and architectural expertise in Ansible Tower/AWX/AAP (workflows, inventories, credentials, RBAC, logging).
• Strong experience in ServiceNow integration and ITSM process alignment for automation-driven operations.
• Proficiency with Python/PowerShell/Shell for building supporting tooling, validations, and integrations.
• Strong experience with Git and release governance in enterprise environments.
• Cross-platform understanding of Windows UNIX/RHEL operational requirements relevant to lifecycle automation.

Experience / Qualifications

• Typically, 8-12 years overall with 3 years leading automation delivery or platform engineering teams in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience delivering lifecycle automation programs at scale and operationalizing them into steady-state execution.

Deliver
No Performance Parameter Measure 1 Operations of the tower SLA adherence
Knowledge management
CSAT/ Customer Experience
Identification of risk issues and mitigation plans
Knowledge management 2 New projects Timely delivery

Avoid unauthorised changes
No formal escalations

Mandatory Skills: Ansible Tower .

Experience: 5-8 Years .

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Client-provided location(s): Pune, India

Job ID: Wipro-157756

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-04-19T18:53:07