Senior Automation Engineer: Ansible & Cyber Defense

Sealing Technologies, a Parsons Company; Maryland; On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Sealing Technologies, a Parsons company, is seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our team delivering automation and security-focused solutions for DoD environments. You will develop and maintain an automation framework using Ansible and Python, integrate with hardware, and support mission-critical deployments.

The role emphasizes scalable design, secure-by-default deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and collaboration across software, hardware, and cybersecurity teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, CS, IT, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 8+ years as Software Engineer or Automation Engineer.
• Expert proficiency in Ansible: playbooks, roles, collections, modules; Jinja2
• Python development and Bash scripting for automation

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, testing, and maintenance of Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections for DCO hunt kits—across diverse environments.
• Design and develop custom Ansible modules and plugins in Python with proper engineering practices.
• Collaborate with software teams to create highly parameterized Ansible aligning the software stack to requirements.
• Configure and automate hardware and network devices using Ansible.
• Implement security controls, including STIG hardening and SELinux in the automation pipeline.
• Build and maintain CI/CD GitHub Actions pipelines with extensive testing of automation code.
• Establish coding standards, code review practices, and testing strategies; mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure standards, security controls, and practices are understood and applied.
• Partner with internal teams to deliver demos and showcase capabilities to customers.
• Identify and define high-level requirements working with user community and DoD architectures.

Skills

Ansible

Python

Bash

Jinja2

Git/GitHub

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

VMware

Kubernetes

Docker

Security concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering / Computer Science / IT

Tools

RHEL-based Linux

Networking

Infrastructure security

Automation frameworks

Job description

Sealing Technologies, a Parsons company, is seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our team delivering automation and security-focused solutions for DoD environments. You will develop and maintain an automation framework using Ansible and Python, integrate with hardware, and support mission-critical deployments.

The role emphasizes scalable design, secure-by-default deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and collaboration across software, hardware, and cybersecurity teams.