Staff Devops Engineer (Ansible Development)

Job Description

Youll develop robust deployment using Ansible for Fluence OS controls and integrating with different subsystems, like, enclosures, PCS/BMS/RTU devices. As a hands-on member of the development team, you will also do the work of delivering a releasable Increment of product at the end of each Sprint, and support commissioning teams with bringup and diagnostics.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain real-time and offline Ansible-based deployment scripts for Fluence OS software across lab, factory, and site environments.
• Own Ansible playbooks, roles, inventories, and variables, ensuring idempotent, modular, and reusable automation.
• Integrate deployment automation into CI/CD pipelines, including linting, testing, and validation of deployment artifacts.
• Write and maintain unit and integration tests; participate in code reviews to uphold deployment quality and best practices.
• Develop and support controls software deployment, integrating grid-scale battery energy storage systems and power conversion systems from industry-leading manufacturers.
• Ensure deployments meet robustness, security, performance, scalability, and maintainability requirements.
• Optimize latency, throughput, and reliability on Linux and embedded target platforms.
• Provide technical mentorship through design discussions, documentation, and code reviews (no formal people management).
• Deliver work within project timelines and support release commitments.
• Track, manage, document, and report work using JIRA and Confluence, including deployment procedures and troubleshooting guides.

Required Qualifications

• Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to produce clear customer-facing and internal technical documentation.
• More than 10 Years of exp in the related Field.
• Strong Ansible experience, including playbooks, roles, inventories, templates, and best practices.
• Strong automation scripting experience using Bash and Python.
• Experience with Docker containers, including Dockerfiles, image builds, troubleshooting, and Docker Compose.
• Strong experience with Ubuntu Linux system administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience with test automation and CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
• Willingness to work at least four hours of overlap with US Central time.