Senior Infra Automation Engineer - On-Prem CoE (Remote)

TISTA Science and Technology Corporation; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Remote work option

Paid time off

Training opportunities

HSA & FSA

Life insurance

Disability coverage

401K match

Tuition reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Paid holidays

Military leave

Job summary

TISTA Science and Technology Corporation is seeking Infrastructure Automation Engineers to build and operate the IE&O Automation Center of Excellence for on‑premises infrastructure. You will engineer reusable automation using Ansible, OpenTofu, Terraform, OpenShift, and VMware technologies, enabling provisioning of VMs, storage, databases, and services.

The role emphasizes writing and validating automation, enabling other teams to adopt it, and maintaining it after release.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in systems, platform, or infrastructure engineering with 3+ years building prod automation
• Hands-on Ansible development and practical Terraform/OpenTofu experience
• Proven on‑prem automation with VMware vSphere and/or Red Hat OpenShift
• Experience with Git-based collaboration, automated testing, and safe operations
• Ability to gather requirements, document interfaces, and train consumers
• Clear communication to Government leadership and stakeholders

Responsibilities

• End-to-end on-prem provisioning: VM creation, OS config, storage, DB provisioning, and networking tasks
• Ansible development: write and maintain playbooks, roles, inventories, and templates
• Infrastructure as code: reusable Terraform/OpenTofu modules and pipelines
• VMware and OpenShift integration: automate templates, lifecycle, and namespaces
• Storage/databases: provisioning, access, backup, and safe retirement
• Testing, release, and recovery engineering: automated validation and rollback actions
• CoE platform sustainment: maintain runners, repos, and artifacts
• Golden Paths: package automation with clear inputs/outputs and runbooks

Skills

Ansible

Terraform/OpenTofu

OpenShift

VMware vSphere

Automation engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

Ansible

Terraform/OpenTofu

OpenShift

VMware vSphere

Job description

TISTA Science and Technology Corporation is seeking Infrastructure Automation Engineers to build and operate the IE&O Automation Center of Excellence for on‑premises infrastructure. You will engineer reusable automation using Ansible, OpenTofu, Terraform, OpenShift, and VMware technologies, enabling provisioning of VMs, storage, databases, and services.

The role emphasizes writing and validating automation, enabling other teams to adopt it, and maintaining it after release.