Senior Storage Automation Engineer

Jobtailor

Manassas (VA)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Jobtailor in Manassas, VA is seeking an experienced Automation/DevOps Engineer to develop and maintain automation scripts and tooling that reduce manual effort and improve infrastructure service delivery. You will build internal dashboards and self-service capabilities for operations, provisioning, and incident response, and translate operational needs into practical, secure automation solutions.

Candidates should have 3–6 years of related experience, strong Python or scripting skills, and a

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
Hands-on development, scripting, automation or infrastructure tooling experience accepted.
Preferably 3–6 years in foundational software development or scripting.
Experience with Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go, JavaScript, or similar languages.
Basic understanding of Linux, networking, DNS, APIs, and infra support concepts.
Experience creating scripts, automation workflows, or small operational tools.
Familiarity with Git, CI/CD concepts, testing, and code reviews.
Ability to read documentation and translate requirements into technical solutions.
Strong problem-solving and attention to detail.
Excellent written and verbal communication; interest in automation and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain scripts, utilities, and automation workflows to improve service delivery.
Build internal tools, dashboards, reports, and self-service capabilities for operations, monitoring, provisioning, and incident response.
Translate operational needs into practical automation and tooling solutions.
Create integrations using APIs, CLIs, web services, and automation interfaces.
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, source control, testing, reviews, and deployment processes.
Troubleshoot automation workflows, Linux systems, APIs, networking, DNS, monitoring, and related infrastructure services.
Automate provisioning, health checks, reporting, validation, maintenance, and compliance evidence collection.
Develop reusable code, templates, playbooks, or modules for consistent infrastructure operations.
Improve monitoring and observability through alerts, metrics, log collection, dashboards, and reporting automation.
Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, and operations teams.
Apply secure coding and operational practices, including access control, secrets handling, auditability, error handling, and documentation.
Create and maintain technical documentation, developer notes, SOPs, and runbooks.
Participate in production support, on-call activities, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.