Job Description
Job Details:
Role: Senior Automation Engineer with Ansible
Location: Woodlawn, MD (On-site)
Duration: 12+ Months Contract
Interview: In-Person
Key Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant IT experience
- Extensive hands-on experience with Ansible, including production-grade playbooks, roles, collections, templates, and reusable automation
- Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), including administration and development
- Strong AWS engineering experience
- Experience designing, provisioning, configuring, and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure
- Hands-on experience developing AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks
- Experience using Ansible or similar automation tools to provision and manage AWS resources
- Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, IAM, compute, storage, and related services
- Strong Linux systems administration and engineering experience, preferably with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Experience with Linux patching, package management, authentication, networking, storage, SELinux, and firewalls
- Proficiency with Python for infrastructure automation, scripting, APIs, and integrations
- Experience with source control, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and unit testing
- Experience building and maintaining containerized execution environments
- Experience with Red Hat Satellite and Linux lifecycle/patch management
- Experience with Linux identity and authentication technologies such as Red Hat IdM/FreeIPA
- Ability to independently own complex technical assignments with minimal supervision
Preferred Experience:
- AWS Systems Manager and patch-management automation
- STIG implementation, remediation, or compliance validation
- FIPS-enabled environments
- Large-scale enterprise Linux and AWS environments
- Federal government, regulated, or security-sensitive environments
- Red Hat, Ansible, Linux, Python, or AWS certifications
Additional Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise automation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
- Develop Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, templates, job templates, and workflows for Linux and AWS infrastructure.
- Develop automation for AWS networking, compute, storage, security, and supporting services.
- Administer AAP inventories, credentials, RBAC, organizations, job templates, workflows, execution environments, and Ansible Builder.
- Automate Linux provisioning, configuration management, patching, security hardening, authentication, networking, storage, SELinux, and firewall management.
- Integrate Red Hat Satellite with Linux management and automation workflows.
- Build and customize containerized execution environments.
- Develop automated tests and integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop patch-management automation using AWS Systems Manager.
Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across AWS, Linux, networking, authentication, storage, security, and application dependencies.
Submission Details:
Skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
Ansibleunmatched
Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
Authenticationunmatched
Automationunmatched
Automation Engineeringunmatched
Computer Networksunmatched
Configuration Managementunmatched
Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
Continuous Integrationunmatched
Engineeringunmatched
Federal Governmentunmatched
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)unmatched
Firewallsunmatched
Identify Issuesunmatched
Identity Data Managementunmatched
Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
Linux Administrationunmatched
Linux Operating Systemunmatched
Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
Red Hat Linux Operating Systemunmatched
Resource Managementunmatched
Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
Security Patchesunmatched
Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)unmatched
Software Patchesunmatched
Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM)unmatched
Subnetunmatched
Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
Systems Engineeringunmatched
Test Automationunmatched
Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
Unit Testunmatched
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