Artifactory Admin
18 Month W2 Contract
Hybrid 3 days onsite 2 days remote
Charlotte, NC
Python / Ansible Automation Engineer – JFrog Artifactory
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Python / Automation Engineer with strong hands-on experience with JFrog Artifactory, Python, and Ansible Tower automation. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in enterprise DevOps automation and software delivery, with proven experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment and using Jira and user stories to manage development work.
This role will focus heavily on automating software delivery, artifact management, deployment processes, and infrastructure workflows within a large-scale enterprise environment.
Required Skills & Experience
1. JFrog Artifactory – Mandatory
- Strong hands-on experience with JFrog Artifactory in an enterprise environment.
- Experience managing, publishing, retrieving, and promoting software artifacts through Artifactory.
- Candidates with genuine Artifactory experience should also have familiarity with the broader JFrog ecosystem, including:
- JFrog Xray for artifact security, vulnerability scanning, and policy management.
- JFrog Distribution / Edge for artifact distribution and deployment across environments.
- Experience integrating Artifactory into CI/CD pipelines and automated software delivery processes.
- Understanding of artifact repositories, versioning, repositories, permissions, and software promotion workflows.
2. Python – Mandatory
- Strong hands-on Python development and scripting experience.
- Experience developing automation tools, scripts, APIs, and utilities using Python.
- Ability to integrate Python applications with enterprise infrastructure, DevOps tools, APIs, and automation platforms.
- Experience troubleshooting and enhancing existing Python automation solutions.
- Strong understanding of Python programming, scripting, data handling, error handling, and integration patterns.
3. Ansible Tower Automation – Mandatory
- Strong hands-on experience with Ansible Tower automation.
- Experience developing, maintaining, and executing Ansible playbooks, roles, and workflows.
- Ability to automate application deployment, configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, and operational processes.
- Experience integrating Ansible Tower with enterprise CI/CD and software delivery environments.
- Experience troubleshooting automation jobs, playbooks, inventories, credentials, and workflow dependencies.
- Knowledge of integrating Ansible Tower with Python, JFrog Artifactory, and other DevOps tools is highly desirable.
Agile / Scrum Experience – Required
- Confirmed experience working within an Agile/Scrum development environment.
- Experience participating in Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
- Ability to work collaboratively with developers, DevOps engineers, QA, architects, and business stakeholders.
- Comfortable working in an environment with iterative development, continuous improvement, and frequent releases.
Jira / User Stories – Required
- Confirmed hands-on experience using Jira for Agile project and development tracking.
- Experience working from user stories, acceptance criteria, epics, tasks, and defects.
- Ability to translate technical requirements into actionable development and automation tasks.
- Experience updating Jira tickets, tracking sprint progress, and communicating status to technical and business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Python-based automation supporting enterprise technology and software delivery processes.
- Design and implement Ansible Tower automation for deployment, configuration, infrastructure, and operational workflows.
- Manage and integrate JFrog Artifactory into automated CI/CD and artifact-management processes.
- Support JFrog Xray and JFrog Distribution/Edge capabilities as part of the enterprise artifact lifecycle.
- Automate artifact promotion, deployment, configuration, and environment management.
- Integrate Python, Ansible Tower, Artifactory, and other enterprise DevOps tools.
- Troubleshoot automation failures, deployment issues, artifact problems, and pipeline dependencies.
- Collaborate with development, QA, infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams.
- Participate actively in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning and execution.
- Create and maintain Jira user stories, tasks, technical documentation, and implementation details.
- Help identify opportunities to improve automation, reliability, deployment efficiency, and operational processes.
- Support continuous integration and continuous delivery practices across enterprise environments.
Required Qualifications
- Strong professional experience with JFrog Artifactory.
- Hands-on experience with JFrog Xray and/or Distribution/Edge.
- Strong Python development/scripting experience.
- Strong Ansible Tower automation experience.
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Hands-on experience with Jira and user stories.
- Strong communication, troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative enterprise technology environment.
Must-Have Screening Criteria
Candidates must demonstrate all of the following:
- JFrog Artifactory – including knowledge/experience with Xray and Distribution/Edge.
- Python development/automation.
- Ansible Tower automation.
- Agile/Scrum experience.
- Jira and user-story experience.
Candidates missing any of the three core technical skills — JFrog Artifactory, Python, or Ansible Tower — should not be considered.