Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer

REQUIRES AN EXISTING/ACTIVE TS/SCI WITH CI POLYGRAPH - NO REMOTE WORK MUST WORK ON SITE

Job Description:

As a Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer on our project youll be on the ground floor of building something meaningful by developing automation frameworks establishing best practices and laying the foundation for scalable infrastructure in a mission-critical environment. Youll provide the customer with insight into their Linux environments through automated monitoring system hardening configuration management and performance optimization. Youll work closely with mission partners and various stakeholders to understand their current pain points and translate them into automation solutions that reduce manual effort and operational risk. Your technical expertise will be vital as you identify where automation can make the biggest immediate impact while keeping an eye on long-term architecture. Youll help your team better understand whats possible by turning early wins into repeatable methodologies and communicating their value to leadership.

Basic 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

Associates degree and 5 years of experience supporting IT projects and activities Bachelors degree and 3 years of experience supporting IT projects and activities or Masters 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

Additional 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

Required Experience:

IC