Automation Engineer

Saic; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Saic in Arlington, VA is seeking an Automation Engineer to work across DevOps teams, building expertise in infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and platform support. You’ll contribute to cross-team projects, training, and knowledge sharing, gaining hands-on experience with a broad set of tooling and environments.

The role requires US citizenship and an active secret clearance; onsite one day per week in Rosslyn, VA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher required, with 5+ years of experience preferred.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in cloud and on-prem environments.
• Active secret clearance and US citizenship are required.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and support CI/CD pipelines and automation in cloud and on-prem contexts.
• Provide infrastructure provisioning and deployment automation across environments.
• Troubleshoot and improve deployment, monitoring, and security automation.
• Collaborate with cloud and on-prem teams and participate in onboarding and knowledge sharing.
• Share learnings to reduce silos and accelerate DevOps capability.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Automation engineering

DevOps collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

GitLab

AWS

EKS

Terraform

Docker

Jenkins

OpenShift

Ansible

Job description

Description

We are seeking an Automation Engineer to 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.

This role requires 1 day each week onsite in Rosslyn, VA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and support CI/CD pipelines and automation in both cloud (GitLab, AWS, EKS, Terraform, Docker) and on-prem (Jenkins, OpenShift, Ansible) contexts.
• Participate in infrastructure provisioning and application deployment automation across both environments.
• Troubleshoot, document, and continuously improve deployment, monitoring, and security automation for all platforms.
• Engage with both the cloud and on-prem teams, proactively learning primary and secondary stacks through onboarding, peer programming, and joint solutioning.
• Share learnings and best practices across the DevOps organization to reduce silos and accelerate overall capability.

Qualifications

Required Education & Experience:

• Bachelors and 5+ years or more experience; Masters and 3+ years; may accept additional experience in lieu of degree.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and supporting CI/CD pipelines and automation in both cloud (GitLab, AWS, EKS, Terraform, Docker) and on-prem (Jenkins, OpenShift, Ansible) contexts.

Required Clearance:

• US Citizenship.
• Active secret clearance.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.