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Our client, a federal technology provider, needs a full-time Ansible Systems Engineer based out of Columbia, MD. This individual will be working a hybrid schedule, 2 days in office, 3 days remote to support internal product development teams.
Job Responsibility:
Building out complex automation framework to deploy in a production environment to physical hardware
Leading implementation, design, testing and maintenance of complex Ansible playbooks, roles and modules to automate deployment of Defensive Cyber Operation kits
Configuring and automatic network appliances
Implementing security controls including STIG hardening and SELinux within the automation pipeline
Implementing CI/CD GitHub Action pipelines to perform extensive automatic testing
Requirements:
8+ years of experience as an Automation Engineer or Systems Engineer in a highly regulated environment
Expert-level Ansible experience including playbooks, roles, modules, Jinja2, Collections, Vault, and Galaxy
Strong Linux administration experience, especially Fedora variants such as RHEL, Rocky, and Oracle Linux
Proficiency in Python and Bash for automation and custom module development
Experience with container and virtualization technologies such as VMware, Kubernetes, Docker, and Podman
Strong cybersecurity knowledge including system hardening, patching, authentication, and log management
Experience with Git and GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile tools such as Jira