Linux & Ansible Automation Engineer - Active TS/SCI
On-siteReston, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Develop automation frameworks, establish best practices, and lay the foundation for scalable infrastructure in a mission-critical environment. Provide customer insight through automated monitoring, system hardening, configuration management, and performance optimization. Work with mission partners to translate pain points into automation solutions that reduce manual effort and operational risk. Identify high-impact automation opportunities while maintaining long-term architecture vision. Turn early wins into repeatable methodologies and communicate value to leadership. This role requires 10+ years of Linux administration and Ansible experience, including IaC with Terraform or Salt. Candidates must hold or obtain TS/SCI clearance with counter-intelligence polygraph within 30 days. ENS Solutions, a service-disabled veteran-owned firm, delivers innovative infrastructure solutions to the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ 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
- 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 (or Associate), GCED, GCIH, 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
- TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain a counter-intelligence polygraph
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
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