Linux & Ansible Automation Engineer - Active TS/SCI

ENS Solutions, LLC•Reston, VA

About The Position

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.

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
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 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.

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 for automation
Laying the foundation for scalable infrastructure in a mission-critical environment
Providing insight into Linux environments through automated monitoring
System hardening
Configuration management
Performance optimization
Working closely with mission partners and stakeholders to understand pain points and translate them into automation solutions
Reducing manual effort and operational risk through automation
Identifying areas where automation can have the biggest immediate impact
Considering long-term architecture
Turning early wins into repeatable methodologies
Communicating the value of automation to leadership