Cloud / Automation Engineer - Secret Cleared
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Arlington, VA
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JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Full-time, Employee
SKILLS
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Automation, Automation Engineering, Bash Scripting, Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Docker, Documentation, Identify Issues, Information Technology & Information Systems, Jenkins, Machine Tool, Mentoring, Multiplatform/Cross-Platform, Onboarding, Operational Strategy, Performance Management, Problem Solving Skills, Process Improvement, Product Demonstration, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Regulatory Compliance, Root Cause Analysis, Secret Clearance, Security Monitoring, Software Engineering, Team Player
LOCATION
Arlington, VA
POSTED
1 day ago
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are seeking Automation Engineers to join our DevOps practice. While each engineer will bring a primary strength in either cloud or on-premise technologies, both profiles work together across our DevOps teams, building broad expertise in infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and platform support. You'll have a designated team home but will routinely participate in cross-team projects, training, and knowledge sharing, gaining hands-on exposure to a diverse set of tooling and environments.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Build, maintain, and support CI/CD pipelines and automation across cloud environments (GitLab, AWS, EKS, Terraform, Docker) and on-premise environments (Jenkins, OpenShift, Ansible)
- Ensure pipelines are reliable, observable, and aligned with security and compliance requirements
- Continuously improve pipeline performance, maintainability, and developer experience
- Participate in infrastructure provisioning and application deployment automation across both cloud and on-prem platforms
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and Ansible
- Support containerized workload deployments on EKS and OpenShift
- Troubleshoot deployment failures, monitoring gaps, and security automation issues across all supported platforms
- Document root cause findings and implement durable fixes
- Identify and drive incremental improvements to platform stability and operational efficiency
- Engage actively with both cloud and on-prem teams through onboarding, peer programming, and joint solutioning
- Proactively build fluency in your secondary stack — cloud engineers learning on-prem practices and vice versa
- Participate in cross-team projects that span both environments
- Share learnings, patterns, and best practices across the DevOps organization
- Contribute to reducing silos by documenting solutions and making them accessible to the broader team
- Help accelerate overall capability through mentoring, demos, and collaborative problem solving
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
- Must have an active Secret clearance or above
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling — GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent
- Proficiency in at least one infrastructure-as-code tool such as Terraform or Ansible
- Working knowledge of containerization with Docker and orchestration concepts (Kubernetes/EKS or OpenShift)
- Scripting ability in Bash, Python, or a similar language for automation tasks
- Strong troubleshooting skills and a systematic approach to diagnosing platform issues
Preferred
- Experience with AWS services relevant to DevOps workloads (EC2, EKS, IAM, S3, CloudWatch)
- Familiarity with OpenShift for on-premise container orchestration
- Exposure to security automation, secrets management, and compliance-as-code practices
- Experience working across both cloud and on-prem environments
- Strong documentation habits and ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to peers
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