Senior Ansible & Linux Automation Engineer – On‑Site DoD

Resource Management Concepts, Inc.; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 175,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

11 federal holidays paid

Pet insurance

Competitive 401K

Tuition assistance and certifications

Job summary

Resource Management Concepts, Inc. in the Carderock area of Bethesda, Maryland, seeks a Senior Ansible & Linux Automation Engineer to support Navy clients.

This on-site role requires strong RHEL and Ansible Automation Platform experience for enterprise Linux operations, patching, configuration, and compliance. The candidate will automate DISA STIG remediation, hardening, and integration with services like ServiceNow, GitLab, Satellite, and Splunk, while developing Python/Bash scripts and

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of hands-on Linux system administration experience (RHEL/CentOS or equivalent).
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform experience.
• Active DoD Top Secret security clearance.
• Experience managing AAP components: Automation Controller, Private Automation Hub, Execution Environments, workflows, inventories, templates, projects, credentials, and RBAC.
• Experience automating DISA STIG compliance, ACAS remediation, and vulnerability-management activities.
• Experience integrating AAP with ITSM, CMDB, monitoring, and security platforms.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, upgrade, and optimize Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.x including Automation Controller and related components.
• Develop, test, and maintain reusable Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, templates, and workflows for provisioning, config management, and patching.
• Build and manage custom Execution Environments using ansible-builder.
• Migrate legacy Ansible Tower/AWX workflows to containerized AAP environments.
• Integrate AAP with enterprise tooling such as ServiceNow, Git/GitLab, Satellite, Splunk, and vulnerability-management platforms.
• Establish automation standards, governance, testing, and Git-based content-management practices.
• Provide Tier 3 engineering support for RHEL 8/9 across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

Skills

RHEL

Ansible

Ansible Automation Platform

Python

Bash

DISA STIG

ACAS

NIST SP 800-53

Education

Associate degree or higher

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Docker

Podman

Git/GitLab

Red Hat Satellite

Job description

Resource Management Concepts, Inc. in the Carderock area of Bethesda, Maryland, seeks a Senior Ansible & Linux Automation Engineer to support Navy clients.

This on-site role requires strong RHEL and Ansible Automation Platform experience for enterprise Linux operations, patching, configuration, and compliance. The candidate will automate DISA STIG remediation, hardening, and integration with services like ServiceNow, GitLab, Satellite, and Splunk, while developing Python/Bash scripts and