Jr Automation Engineer

Edgewater Federal Solutions • Albuquerque, NM

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Jr Automation Engineer to support a major national laboratory. The successful candidate shall have experience with automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef. Experience in UNIX, Linux, and/or Windows Operating System (OS), including file management, scripting, editing, and security. Experience with a variety of programming languages, software, or tools to develop regular or ad-hoc queries from large datasets. Familiar with network communication protocols, and other related protocols. Ability to implement solutions integrating Rest application program interface (API) based web services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree along with 1 year or more of relevant experience
• In lieu of degree must have at minimum 7 years of work related experience
• Must have an Active DOE Q level security clearance
• Must be US Citizen
• Must live in the Albuquerque as some onsite work is required.
• Server administration and infrastructure management.
• Container technologies: Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes.
• Ability to follow standard change-management and release processes consistently.
• Strong commitment to team collaboration, communication, and transparency.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
• Experience in UNIX, Linux, and/or Windows Operating System (OS), including file management, scripting, editing, and security.
• Experience with a variety of programming languages, software, or tools to develop regular or ad-hoc queries from large datasets.
• Familiar with network communication protocols, and other related protocols.
• Ability to implement solutions integrating Rest application program interface (API) based web services.

Responsibilities

• Manage and administer server infrastructure supporting development and production environments.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain containerized applications using OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with backend and frontend developers to build robust APIs and user interfaces.
• Design and optimize databases to support application needs.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes.
• Drive DevOps best practices to improve software delivery speed and reliability.
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues in development and production environments.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level