Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton
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Job summary
Booz Allen Hamilton in Reston, VA seeks a Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer to design, deploy, and scale automated solutions for a mission-critical enterprise environment.
You will build automation frameworks, enforce best practices, monitor, harden, and optimize Linux systems, while mentoring teammates and communicating value to leadership.
Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI clearance and willingness to take a polygraph.
- Experience administering Linux-based environments (RHEL).
- Hands-on Ansible for config management and drift detection.
- Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Salt, Puppet, Chef).
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and grow automated solutions for enterprise environments.
- Develop automation frameworks and establish best practices.
- Lead and mentor team members to adopt automation culture.
- Communicate automation value to leadership and stakeholders.
- Collaborate with mission partners to translate pain points into automation.
Skills
Education
Tools
Job description
The Opportunity: We’re looking for a Linux engineer and automation specialist to help us design, deploy, and grow automated solutions for an enterprise environment that is actively modernizing. As a Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer on our project, you’ll be on the ground floor of building something meaningful by developing automation frameworks, establishing best practices, and laying the foundation for scalable infrastructure in a mission‑critical environment. You’ll provide the customer with insight into their Linux environments through automated monitoring, system hardening, configuration management, and performance optimization. You’ll work closely with mission partners and various stakeholders to understand their current pain points and translate them into automation solutions that reduce manual effort and operational risk. Your technical expertise will be vital as you identify where automation can make the biggest immediate impact while keeping an eye on long‑term architecture. You’ll help your team better understand what’s possible by turning early wins into repeatable methodologies and communicating their value to leadership. We focus on growing as a team, so you’ll share your expertise through leadership and mentoring as you help others embrace a culture of automation. As a technical leader, you’ll have a real voice in how this capability evolves, including identifying new opportunities to expand coverage and mature the program as your customers’ needs grow. This position is located in Reston, Virginia.
- 5+ years of experience administering Linux-based environments such as RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Experience managing configuration at scale using Ansible, including enforcing consistent system state across large inventories, detecting and correcting configuration drift, and writing idempotent playbooks
- Experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Puppet, or Chef
- Experience with Bash, Python, or PowerShell
- Experience managing systems within U.S. federal government or DoD enterprise IT environments, including security compliance and vulnerability management frameworks such as STIG, RMF, or NIST
- Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
- Associate’s degree and 5+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities
- Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities
- Master’s degree and 1+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities
- Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT LevelIII Certification such as SecurityX, formerly CASP+, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP, GCED, GCIH, or CCSP certification within 30 days of start date
- Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 Cybersecurity Service Provider – Infrastructure Support Certification (CSSP‑IS), including CEH, CySA+, GICSP, SSCP, CHFI, CFR, Cloud+, or CND Certification, within 30 days of start date
- Experience with VMware vSphere administration and managing virtual machine
- Experience in Kubernetes, container platform operations, cluster lifecycle management, workload orchestration
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience with NetApp storage solutions and designing or maintaining enterprise backup and recovery solutions
- Knowledge of version control concepts and Git
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.
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