Automation Engineer

Function

Our client is looking for a seasoned automation engineer to help advance infrastructure automation and Automation-as-Code across a complex enterprise technology environment. This hands-on role focuses on designing and delivering scalable automation that improves consistency, strengthens security and compliance, and increases operational resilience across infrastructure, network, security, cloud, and platform domains.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise automation solutions using Ansible and related technologies.
• Build reusable roles, collections, playbooks, and automation frameworks that can be applied across teams and platforms.
• Define and support standards for Infrastructure-as-Code and Automation-as-Code.
• Promote automation adoption across infrastructure and operations teams.
• Ensure solutions are version-controlled, thoroughly tested, and properly documented.
• Automate provisioning, configuration management, patching, lifecycle management, and operational remediation.
• Support standardised deployments and configurations for Linux and Windows servers.
• Integrate automation with enterprise platforms and tooling ecosystems, including self-service capabilities where relevant.
• Automate security hardening, compliance checks, vulnerability remediation, and evidence collection.
• Contribute to audit readiness, operational controls, disaster recovery, and business continuity efforts.
• Improve resilience through automated recovery, monitoring, and continuous service improvement.
• Partner with infrastructure, security, architecture, and application stakeholders to identify automation opportunities.
• Coach and mentor engineers on automation best practices and act as a subject matter expert.

Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible Automation.
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code and Automation-as-Code principles.
• Experience creating reusable automation components such as roles, collections, and playbooks.
• Knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, including Linux and Windows server environments.
• Experience with automation for provisioning, patching, configuration management, and remediation.
• Familiarity with security hardening, compliance automation, and governance requirements.
• Ability to work with platform and tooling integrations across an enterprise landscape.
• Experience with monitoring, reporting, and operational control frameworks is an advantage.

Profile

• Several years of experience in infrastructure automation or a similar senior engineering role.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical challenges.
• Automation-first mindset and a genuine drive to replace manual work with scalable solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Continuous improvement mentality and a strong sense of ownership.
• Self-motivated, outcome-oriented, and comfortable working across multiple technical domains.
• Strong documentation habits and a disciplined approach to knowledge sharing.
• Fluent English communication skills.

Practical Information

• This opportunity is 100% on-site in Brussels.
• Long-term consulting opportunity.
• Language requirements: fluent English.

Contactperson & Reference

• Reference #: INW26959
• Marilyn Weytens
• marilyn.weytens@i4m.be