Senior Linux Automation Engineer (Ansible / Shell) / IT

About TCS Hungary:

At TCS Hungary, opportunity meets stability in a vibrant and dynamic work environment. Tata Consultancy Services is one of the world’s fastest-growing technology partners, employing over 600,000 people from 152 nationalities across 55 countries. Since our establishment in 2001 in Budapest, we’ve been committed to delivering exceptional services through the power of digital technology.

What You Will Do:

• Write analysis and reporting scripts against Linux systems (Bash/POSIX shell, awk, sed, grep, standard coreutils) to extract and evaluate system and configuration state
• Automate and scale these routines through Ansible (roles, playbooks, inventories, variable design, idempotent tasks)
• Substantially rework and consolidate an existing Ansible configuration — refactoring, not just extending
• Work directly with platform, operations and security stakeholders: clarify requirements, present findings, defend design decisions
• Document and hand over the resulting automation so it can be operated by the platform teams

What Do We Offer:

• Market-leading private healthcare package
• Attractive cafeteria package
• Hybrid working model
• Office gym and sports clubs
• Career growth opportunities across diverse roles
• Access to learning platforms such as Udemy and O'Reilly
• Extensive certification and development opportunities
• Work on strategic Microsoft Cloud projects across Europe

What You Will Bring:

• Senior level: several years of hands-on Linux (RHEL) engineering, able to own a workstream end to end without close supervision
• Confident shell scripting: Bash, awk, sed, regular expressions, text processing pipelines
• Practical Ansible experience beyond running existing playbooks — writing, structuring and refactoring them
• SSH key handling: key generation and distribution, authorized_keys and sshd configuration, agent forwarding, key rotation and removal at scale
• Ability to work from incomplete documentation and derive the actual system state from the systems themselves
• Strong communication skills in English, written and spoken — clear technical writing and confident presentation to non-Linux stakeholders

…and we appreciate if you have:

• SSH certificate handling (CA-signed, short-lived certificates as an alternative to static keys)
• PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) / Linux authentication and authorisation internals
• Exposure to privileged access tooling — HashiCorp Vault and/or CyberArk
• Python for tooling
• German language skills

About Your Contract:

• 40 hours/week
• Full-time, indefinite contract
• Location: Budapest, Hungary
• Hybrid working model with 1-2 office days per week
• Occasional travel to customer locations across Europe
• Onboarding and acclimatization period provided
• You must be currently eligible to work in Hungary

Join our collaborative team and help shape Microsoft-based digital transformation solutions for leading organizations across Europe.

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