Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•Reston, VA

13h•$86,800 - $198,000•Remote

About The Position

We're looking for a Linux engineer and automation specialist to help us design, deploy, and grow automated solutions for an enterprise environment that is actively modernizing. As a Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer on our project, you'll 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. You'll provide the customer with insight into their Linux environments through automated monitoring, system hardening, configuration management, and performance optimization. You'll 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. You'll help your team better understand what's possible by turning early wins into repeatable methodologies and communicating their value to leadership. We focus on growing as a team, so you'll share your expertise through leadership and mentoring as you help others embrace a culture of automation. As a technical leader, you'll have a real voice in how this capability evolves, including identifying new opportunities to expand coverage and mature the program as your customers' needs grow.

Requirements

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.
Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam.
Associate’s degree and 5+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, OR Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, OR Master’s degree and 1+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities.
Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification such as Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, SSCP, CySA+, GICSP, or CND Certification within 30 days of start date.

Nice To Haves

Experience with VMware vSphere administration and managing virtual machines.
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.

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and grow automated solutions for an enterprise environment.
Develop automation frameworks.
Establish best practices for automation.
Lay the foundation for scalable infrastructure in a mission-critical environment.
Provide insight into Linux environments through automated monitoring, system hardening, configuration management, and performance optimization.
Work closely with mission partners and stakeholders to understand pain points and translate them into automation solutions.
Identify where automation can make the biggest immediate impact while considering long-term architecture.
Turn early wins into repeatable methodologies and communicate their value to leadership.
Share expertise through leadership and mentoring to help others embrace a culture of automation.
Have a voice in how the automation capability evolves, including identifying new opportunities to expand coverage and mature the program.