i was actually able to resolve my issue. by creating the user and group and changing the permissions of the directory in the image once i was done my work as root
FROM REGISTRY/docker-quay-remote/ansible/awx-ee@sha256:c5f0c1f73b380a5720c8a1a24a4dc883a0526142c60e5b8830b4a624d03d669d
USER root
... SOME WORK
RUN groupadd -g 1000 awx && \
useradd -u 1000 -g 1000 awx &&\
chown -R 1000:1000 /runner
USER 1000:1000
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