Remote-Eligible Ansible Network Automation Engineer

Atlas Tech; Charleston (SC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlas Tech in Charleston, SC, seeks an Ansible Automation Engineer with strong networking to support DoD customers. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and maintaining automated network solutions across enterprise environments.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on Ansible expertise, Cisco networking exposure, and Linux experience, plus the ability to work in a partially remote setup and travel up to 10%.

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on Ansible experience with playbooks, roles, and dynamic inventories.
• Strong Linux server administration experience (RHEL 7/8/9/10 or similar).
• Background in enterprise networking fundamentals (routing, switching, firewalls, VLANs, BGP, OSPF).
• Experience with Cisco network devices and Cisco SD-WAN technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and automation frameworks for network operations.
• Serve as the technical authority for Ansible automation strategy within the network domain.
• Utilize Ansible to manage SD-WAN environments and Cisco network infrastructure, including routers, switches, firewalls, WAN-Os, and management nodes.
• Develop reusable automation patterns, standards, and best practices for network teams.
• Collaborate with network engineering, operations, project managers and architecture teams.
• Maintain documentation on automation processes, network topology impacts, and operational guides.
• Ensure automation solutions align with security policies (DISA STIGs, RMF) and change management processes.
• Provide knowledge transfer and mentorship to junior engineers and cross-functional teams.

Skills

Ansible

Bash scripting

Linux networking

Cisco networking

YAML

Python for network automation

GitLab

JIRA

Education

BS Degree in relevant technical field

Security+ CE

Professional Scrum Developer certification

Tools

GitLab

JIRA

Job description

Atlas Tech in Charleston, SC, seeks an Ansible Automation Engineer with strong networking to support DoD customers. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and maintaining automated network solutions across enterprise environments.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on Ansible expertise, Cisco networking exposure, and Linux experience, plus the ability to work in a partially remote setup and travel up to 10%.