Job Title: Automation Engineer

Location: St Louis, MO | Onsite

Employment Type: Contract

Duration: 6-12 months

Pay: $50/hr

About:

VLink, founded in 2006, is a leading global provider of software engineering services with next-gen technologies and best-in-class talent. Our Headquarters are in the U.S, and we have offices in 7+ countries from North America-Europe to APAC, with expansion plans in the Middle East. With over 1,000 employees working globally, VLink has helped SMBs, and large enterprises achieve their business goals, and gained the trust of Fortune-250 companies. VLink is 'Great Place to Work CertifiedTM' and has been a consistent winner as- Best Places to Work in CT. Trust, collaboration, and accountability are the three elements that are at the core of VLink's work culture. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits and the opportunity for growth.

Job Description:

Seniority: Senior engineer, ordinarily 6 or more years of relevant automation or DevOps experience.
Mission: Automate traffic draining, maintenance, patching, software deployment, validation, and recovery workflows so operations are safe, repeatable, and auditable.

Core responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and orchestration workflows.

• Integrate proxy controls with patching, IPL/restart, and software-release processes.

• Build pre-checks, post-checks, health validation, rollback, and manual fallback procedures.

• Integrate automation with Jenkins and enterprise CI/CD pipelines.

• Apply source control, testing, approval, promotion, access-control, and audit standards to automation.

• Produce operational playbooks that BizOps can execute safely.
  

Required skills:

• Advanced Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform experience.

• Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD orchestration.

• Python and Linux scripting.

• Infrastructure as Code, Git-based workflows, and API integration.

• Experience automating high-risk production maintenance and recovery procedures.
  

Preferred experience:

• Network and application traffic-drain automation.

• Policy-based access control and enterprise change-management integration.

• Mission-critical infrastructure or transaction-processing environments.
  

Employment Practices:

VLink is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

This job application process may use AI-powered tools to assist in screening and evaluating applications based on objective, job-related qualifications. AI is used solely to support the recruitment process and all final hiring decisions are made exclusively by our human recruitment team.

Applicant information will be handled in accordance with VLink's privacy policy.