Onsite Jr. Automation & Orchestration Engineer - Norfolk

Piper Companies; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 93,000; Full time

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Jr. Automation & Orchestration Engineer to support a long-term DoD program focused on automation, orchestration, site reliability, release management, and infrastructure engineering. This is 100% onsite in Norfolk, VA with a 6:00–8:00 AM start, Monday–Friday.

You will automate infrastructure tasks, develop Ansible playbooks, and maintain CI/CD pipelines while collaborating with distributed teams across enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 1–2+ years of hands-on experience in site engineering, infrastructure automation, systems engineering, DevOps, SRE, or a related technical discipline.
• Active Secret Clearance
• Ability to obtain an IAT Level II baseline certification within the first 3 months of employment, such as Security+ CE, CySA+, GSEC, SSCP, CND, GICSP, or CCNA Security.
• Hands-on experience with Ansible, including playbook development, automation, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines, such as Jenkins, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, or similar technologies.

Responsibilities

• Support site reliability engineering, infrastructure automation, orchestration, release management, implementation, migration, and integration activities across enterprise environments.
• Automate routine infrastructure tasks, software updates, system configurations, patching, deployments, and operational processes.
• Develop, test, troubleshoot, and maintain automation scripts and workflows.
• Develop Ansible playbooks, roles, and automation workflows for infrastructure configuration, deployment, testing, and operational management.
• Perform Ansible development and testing in non-production environments before migrating automation capabilities into production networks.
• Automate Windows infrastructure and endpoint administration using Ansible, PowerShell, Python, and related scripting technologies.
• Develop automated solutions for system configuration, patching, software deployment, and infrastructure maintenance.
• Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, and related DevOps platforms.
• Support automated functional, integration, security, regression, acceptance, load, and stress testing.
• Develop and document automated acceptance-testing approaches for new applications, capabilities, releases, and infrastructure changes.
• Develop automated integration and regression testing procedures to improve release quality and operational reliability.
• Support the design, implementation, testing, and deployment of infrastructure automation capabilities.
• Participate in release management activities including release planning, scheduling, implementation, migration, and validation.
• Establish, maintain, and update release management documentation, schedules, procedures, and implementation plans.
• Assess release packages, infrastructure dependencies, software requirements, and existing equipment to identify potential deployment issues.
• Support implementation and migration activities across production and non-production environments.
• Troubleshoot automation failures, deployment issues, configuration problems, and infrastructure defects.
• Analyze system and application behavior to identify opportunities for additional automation and operational improvements.
• Support day-to-day infrastructure operations across virtualized, on‑premises, cloud, and classified environments.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, work instructions, automation procedures, testing procedures, operational runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Document automation and orchestration processes to support repeatable and standardized operations.
• Provide training and knowledge transfer when new technologies, automation capabilities, tools, or processes are introduced.
• Participate in site surveys and infrastructure assessments as required to validate equipment, software, dependencies, and release requirements.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, network, systems, cybersecurity, DevOps, SRE, and operations teams across distributed environments.
• Support program execution within classified environments and assist with activities requiring access to SIPRNet.
• Participate in continuous process improvement and identify opportunities to increase infrastructure reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Follow Agile, DevOps, SRE, configuration management, and enterprise release-management processes.

Skills

Ansible

PowerShell

Python

CI/CD

IaC

Jenkins

GitLab

Windows

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Jr. Automation & Orchestration Engineer to support a long-term DoD program focused on automation, orchestration, site reliability, release management, and infrastructure engineering. This is 100% onsite in Norfolk, VA with a 6:00–8:00 AM start, Monday–Friday.

You will automate infrastructure tasks, develop Ansible playbooks, and maintain CI/CD pipelines while collaborating with distributed teams across enterprise environments.