Jr. Site Reliability Engineer (Automation & Orchestration)

The Amatriot Group; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

The Amatriot Group is seeking a Jr. Site Reliability Engineer focused on automation and orchestration to support NMCI-backed services.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering in virtualized and on-prem environments, with responsibilities to automate patches, manage configurations, and support DevOps pipelines. Ideal candidates have 1–2 years of automation experience, scripting skills, and familiarity with Ansible in Windows ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Hands-on site automation engineering experience.
• Experience with CI/CD toolchains ( Jenkins, GitLab).
• Scripting in PowerShell or Python for automation.
• Knowledge of Ansible and Windows administration.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering support in virtualized and on-prem environments.
• Automate patches and system configurations.
• Orchestrate network operations and DevOps pipelines.
• Design Ansible playbooks and test in non-production environments before production migration.

Skills

Ansible

Windows

CI/CD

PowerShell/Python

Agile

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Azure DevOps

Job description

Jr. Site Reliability Engineer (Automation & Orchestration)

Location: Norfolk, VA
Security Clearance: Active Secret or higher [Required]
Job Type: Full-Time
Target Salary Range*:$80,000 - $125,000

*This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary

Position Overview

Support the U.S. Navy’s Service Management, Integration, and Transport (SMIT) program by providing engineering support to the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI). This role performs hands-on engineering and testing in virtualized and on-premises environments, automates patches and system configurations, orchestrates network operations and DevOps pipelines, scales releases, and supports day-to-day operations in commercial cloud and on-premises environments.

Key Responsibilities

Site Reliability Engineering, Automation, and Integration

• Provide continuous development and continuous integration, including site reliability engineering, integration, release management, implementation, migration, training, and knowledge transfer.
• Automate routine tasks and software updates.
• Document and maintain functional, integration, security, and load/stress testing procedures.
• Document and deliver an approach for automated acceptance and integration/regression testing of all new applications and capabilities.
• Design Ansible playbooks, develop roles, and conduct testing in non-production environments before migration to production networks.

Release Management

• Participate in developing release management processes, procedures, and policies.
• Establish, manage, update, and maintain the overall Release Management Plan and Release Schedule.
• Conduct site surveys as necessary to assess existing equipment and software and validate release package requirements and dependencies.

Training and Knowledge Transfer

• Develop, document, and maintain work instructions for automation and orchestration processes.
• Provide training when substantive technological changes are introduced.

Qualifications

Education

Experience

• 1–2 years of hands-on site engineering automation experience. [Required]
• Hands-on engineering and testing experience in virtualized or on-premises environments. [Required]
• Experience designing, coding, debugging, and maintaining automated scripts. [Required]
• Experience with CI/CD toolsets, such as Jenkins or GitLab. [Required]
• Experience automating tasks using scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python. [Required]

Skills

• Ansible knowledge and experience with Windows. [Required]
• Knowledge and experience with infrastructure as code environments, patch and system configuration automation, network operations and DevOps pipeline orchestration, release scaling, and daily commercial cloud and on-premises operations. [Required]
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies. [Required]
• Basic understanding of Azure DevOps workflows, projects, and custom configurations. [Required]
• Self-motivation and the discipline to work with a distributed team. [Required]
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative, forward-thinking, innovation-driven environment. [Required]

Certifications

Ability to obtain an IAT Level II baseline certification within the first 3 months of employment, such as CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, or SSCP. [Required]

Clearance

Ability to qualify for a Secret clearance. [Required]

Other Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen. [Required]
• Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice (local travel). [Required]

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation, to automate test environments.
• ITIL v4, Scrum Master, or Agile SAFe certification(s), or applicable experience.