Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer
$86,800–$198,000 year
On-siteWashington, District of Columbia, United States or Reston, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Design, deploy, and grow automated solutions for an enterprise environment by developing automation frameworks, establishing best practices, and laying the foundation for scalable infrastructure. Provide customers with insight into Linux environments through automated monitoring, system hardening, configuration management, and performance optimization. Work closely with mission partners to translate pain points into automation solutions that reduce manual effort and operational risk, while identifying immediate impacts on architecture and turning early wins into repeatable methodologies. Share expertise through leadership and mentoring to help others embrace a culture of automation, providing a real voice in how the capability evolves as customer needs grow.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience administering Linux-based environments such as RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Experience managing configuration at scale using Ansible, including enforcing consistent system state across large inventories, detecting and correcting configuration drift, and writing idempotent playbooks
- Experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Puppet, or Chef
- Experience with Bash, Python, or PowerShell
- Experience managing systems within U.S. federal government or DoD enterprise IT environments, including security compliance and vulnerability management frameworks such as STIG, RMF, or NIST
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- Willingness to take a polygraph exam
- Associate's degree and 5+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities
- Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities
- Master's degree and 1+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities
- Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT Level III Certification such as SecurityX, formerly CASP+, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP, GCED, GCIH, or CCSP certification within 30 days of start date
- Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 Cybersecurity Service Provider - Infrastructure Support Certification (CSSP-IS), including CEH, CySA+, GICSP, SSCP, CHFI, CFR, Cloud+, or CND Certification, within 30 days of start date
- Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required
- This position is located in Reston, Virginia
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with VMware vSphere administration and managing virtual machine
- Experience in Kubernetes, container platform operations, cluster lifecycle management, workload orchestration
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience with NetApp storage solutions and designing or maintaining enterprise backup and recovery solutions
- Knowledge of version control concepts and Git
Additional Requirements
- Candidates must be eligible for TS/SCI clearance.
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