Senior Automation Engineer (Ping/LDAP) (Charlotte)

Minneapolis, Charlotte, or Las Colinas (3 days onsite, 2 days remote)

Pay range: 50-56/hour w2

**No C2C opportunities**

We are seeking an Automation Engineer to help modernize and automate its enterprise Ping Directory platform. You’ll partner with LDAP engineers to improve configuration-as-code, deployment automation, CI/CD pipelines, and operational reliability for mission-critical directory services.

What you’ll do

• Modernize and maintain automation written in Ruby/RubyGems, Perl, Bash, Python, and Java.
• Develop Python solutions and Ansible playbooks for directory configuration, deployment, and maintenance.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure configuration, automation, and custom code.
• Design, test, and deploy containerized directory services on IBM OpenShift/Kubernetes.
• Support compliance automation, troubleshoot reliability and scaling issues, and improve deployment consistency.
• Lead moderately complex initiatives and provide technical guidance to junior team members.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in DevOps.
• 3+ years of development experience with Ruby, Python, Java, and/or Perl.
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools such as Orchestra, Harness, UCD, Artifactory, SonarQube, Black Duck, or GitHub Copilot.
• 3+ years of experience with cloud technologies, Kubernetes, or containers on IBM OpenShift.
• 2+ years of GitHub Copilot experience.

Desired qualifications

• Experience developing Ansible playbooks and working with LDAP or directory services.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, Agile practices, and change management.
• Ability to investigate reliability and scaling issues across code and infrastructure.
• Leadership, mentoring, and strong communication skills.