I am posting this because I usually have to play with this several times whenever this problem comes up. I am not sure how often this will come up for others… but hopefully this will save someone sometime in the future 
There is an awesome Ansible content collection for AWX itself Awx.Awx — Ansible Documentation
One of the Lookup Plugins there is very powerful: awx.awx.controller_api lookup – Search the API for objects — Ansible Documentation
This will allow you to basically do any lookup in the API (which you can get to via https://your_awx_ip/api/v2)
Some of the documentation examples from the lookup plugin are great but they don’t contain a playbook so I thought I would show a very simple Ansible Playbook here that could run locally (on the AWX node itself).
---
- hosts: localhost
vars:
desired_job_template: 'Network-Banner'
tasks:
- name: retrieve Network-Banner job template
set_fact:
network_banner_exist: "{{ query('awx.awx.controller_api', 'job_templates', query_params={ 'name': desired_job_template }, host='localhost', username='admin', password='ansible123!', verify_ssl=False) }}"
- name: print out network_banner_exist var
debug:
msg: "{{ network_banner_exist }}"
failed_when: network_banner_exist == []
- name: fail when survey is not enabled
debug:
msg: "Is a survey enabled for {{ desired_job_template }}? {{ network_banner_exist[0].survey_enabled }}"
failed_when: not network_banner_exist[0].survey_enabled
This Ansible Playbook is (numbers corresponding to the tasks)
- Queries the job_templates, specifically looking for a job template called
desired_job_template, which in my case is a job calledNetwork-Banner - Will fail if this job is empty (which is
[]) which means it does not exist. - Will fail if this job has no survey enabled.
This is a quick way to audit AWX / automation controller to make sure jobs exist, or are configured the way you want them.
I am showing usernames and passwords here, obviously you would want to encrypt those with something like ansible-vault.