Senior Linux & Ansible Automation Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton; United States; On-site; USD 87,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Tuition assistance

Paid leave

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton in Reston, VA seeks a Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer to design, deploy, and grow automated solutions for an enterprise environment modernizing infrastructure.

You will develop automation frameworks, establish best practices, and provide insight into Linux environments through monitoring, hardening, and performance optimization, aligning short-term wins with long-term architecture while mentoring others.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience administering Linux-based environments such as RHEL.
• Experience managing configuration at scale using Ansible, including enforcing consistent system state across large inventories, detecting and correcting configuration drift, and writing idempotent playbooks
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Puppet, or Chef
• Experience with Bash, Python, or PowerShell
• Experience managing systems within U.S. federal government or DoD enterprise IT environments, including security compliance and vulnerability management frameworks such as STIG, RMF, or NIST
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
• Education: Associate/Bachelor/Master with IT project experience requirements

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and grow automated solutions for an enterprise environment.
• Develop automation frameworks and establish best practices.
• Provide insight into Linux environments through automated monitoring, system hardening, configuration management, and performance optimization.
• Mentor teammates and lead automation initiatives.
• Translate customer pain points into automation solutions and align efforts with long-term architecture and leadership.

Skills

Linux administration

Ansible automation

IaC tooling

Bash scripting

Python scripting

PowerShell

TS/SCI clearance

DoD IT experience

DoD 8570 certifications readiness

Education

Associate's degree +5 yrs IT

Bachelor's degree +3 yrs IT

Master's degree +1 yr IT

Tools

VMware vSphere

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

NetApp storage

Git

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton in Reston, VA seeks a Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer to design, deploy, and grow automated solutions for an enterprise environment modernizing infrastructure.

You will develop automation frameworks, establish best practices, and provide insight into Linux environments through monitoring, hardening, and performance optimization, aligning short-term wins with long-term architecture while mentoring others.