Directory Services Automation Engineer

About the job

Join a critical infrastructure team supporting a large-scale enterprise directory services platform used for customer, employee, and machine authentication. This contract opportunity is available in Minneapolis, MN (preferred), Charlotte, NC, or Las Colinas, TX (hybrid, 3 days on-site) and will focus on modernizing highly available identity infrastructure using Python, Ansible, Ruby, Linux, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code, within environments leveraging Ping Directory, Oracle Unified Directory (OUD), OpenLDAP, and LDAP technologies.

This is a great opportunity for an engineer who enjoys taking complex, highly operational environments and making them more automated, reliable, and scalable. Rather than traditional application development or system administration, you’ll modernize legacy tooling, eliminate manual processes, and build automation that directly improves the reliability and efficiency of mission-critical authentication infrastructure supporting millions of customer records and transactions.

Contract Duration: 24 months

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on Python development/scripting experience
• Strong Ansible automation experience
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Strong experience working in Red Hat Linux/Linux-based environments
• Experience developing automation for infrastructure, platforms, or operational systems
• Ability to understand and modernize existing scripts and legacy automation
• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical production environments
• Strong understanding of platform reliability, deployment automation, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with LDAP and enterprise directory services
• Hands-on experience with Ping Directory, Oracle Unified Directory (OUD), OpenLDAP, or similar directory platforms
• Experience supporting identity and authentication infrastructure
• Ruby development or scripting experience
• Experience working with Perl, Bash, shell scripting, and/or Java
• Understanding of large-scale directory environments, including connection handling, data consistency, concurrency, performance, and scalability
• Experience modernizing legacy automation frameworks and operational tooling
• Experience with large-scale operational data platforms or database/platform tuning

What You Will Be Doing

• Modernize legacy operational processes through automation
• Convert manual administrative activities into repeatable automated workflows
• Build, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines
• Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions supporting platform deployments
• Automate deployment of directory services products into production environments
• Develop new automation and tooling using Python, Ansible, and Ruby
• Read, understand, and modernize existing Perl, Bash, Ruby, and Java automation
• Improve deployment consistency, reliability, scalability, and error reduction
• Build tooling to support platform management and day-to-day operational processes
• Support performance, data consistency, and operational efficiency initiatives across the directory services environment