Ansible Automation Specialist
Remote / Contract
DropinAdmin is looking for an Ansible-savvy automation engineer to help build and maintain reusable playbooks and roles. If you thrive on clean YAML, tight provisioning flows, and repeatable server deployments — we want you.
What would you do at DropinAdmin?
You’ll be designing infrastructure automation that enables fast, repeatable provisioning of environments for Laravel apps, Docker setups, GitHub runners, cloud resources, and internal tooling.
Responsibilities
Author and maintain clean, linted Ansible roles and playbooks
Automate cloud provisioning across AWS, Linode, and Proxmox
Collaborate on CI workflows for applying infrastructure changes
Document automation flows clearly and consistently
Test and troubleshoot playbooks across multiple environments
Who we're looking for
2+ years of experience writing and debugging Ansible playbooks
Strong understanding of Linux systems administration
Comfortable working with GitHub Actions or other CI tools
Experience automating Nginx, PHP-FPM, system services, and users
Bonus: experience with Jinja2 templating and Ansible Collections
What makes DropinAdmin special?
We automate everything
If we do it more than once, we script it.
YAML snobs welcome
We keep our playbooks neat, dry, and DRY.
Cloud + bare metal
You’ll automate against both Proxmox and AWS environments.
Minimal meetings
We don’t do chaos. Work async, deliver impact.
How to apply
Send us a link to your public roles or share a sample playbook with comments explaining what it does. Show us how you approach automation the smart way.
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