Try passing a full path to the ansible-lint config file

.ansible-lint

@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ use_default_rules: true
 verbosity: 1
 exclude_paths:
   # Ignore submodule https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-ops-agents-ansible
-  - ./roles/google-cloud-ops-agents-ansible/
+  - roles/google-cloud-ops-agents-ansible/

.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install ansible-lint
         run: pip install ansible-lint==24.7.0
       - name: Run ansible-lint
-        run: ansible-lint
+        run: ansible-lint -c ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/ansible_collections/google/cloud/.ansible-lint
   unit:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     defaults: