Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•Reston, VA

3d•$86,800 - $198,000•Onsite

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, 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 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

Responsibilities

Developing automation frameworks
Establishing best practices
Laying the foundation for scalable infrastructure in a mission-critical environment
Providing insight into Linux environments through automated monitoring, system hardening, configuration management, and performance optimization
Working closely with mission partners and various stakeholders to understand their current pain points and translate them into automation solutions
Identifying where automation can make the biggest immediate impact while keeping an eye on long-term architecture
Turning early wins into repeatable methodologies and communicating their value to leadership
Sharing expertise through leadership and mentoring
Identifying new opportunities to expand coverage and mature the program