SRE – Jr. Automation Engineer

Devopsroles; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Jr. Site Reliability Automation and Orchestration Engineer to support the NMCI program in a high-visibility DoD environment. The role focuses on automation, testing, release management, and knowledge transfer across on-prem and cloud-like environments.

Qualified candidates will have hands-on automation experience, Ansible expertise, and the ability to operate in classified settings with an active DoD secret clearance. Local travel to NMCI locations may be required.

Qualifications

• BS degree or higher in a technical field and 2–4 years of related experience.
• 1–2 years of hands-on site engineering automation.
• Ability to maintain an IAT Level II baseline certification within 3 months.
• Active DoD secret clearance and US citizenship.
• Ansible knowledge and Windows experience.
• Experience with CI/CD toolsets (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab).
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Automate routine tasks and software updates; support SRE and release management.
• Document automated acceptance, integration, and regression testing for new apps and capabilities.
• Develop Ansible playbooks in non-production and migrate to production networks.
• Participate in release management planning, scheduling, and procedures.
• Create work instruction materials for Automation and Orchestration processes and provide training.

Skills

Ansible

CI/CD tooling

PowerShell

Python

Scripting

Team collaboration

Education

BS in a technical field

MS in a technical field

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Job description

The U.S. Navy’s Service Management, Integration, and Transport (SMIT) program has an opening for a Jr. Site Reliability Automation and Orchestration Engineer on a high-visibility DoD program that provides engineering support to the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), the largest information technology (IT) network in the world. This position will provide many opportunities to challenge and grow your skills.

Position Summary:

This person should be a seasoned, self-motivated, professional with hands-on engineering and testing experience in virtualized or on-prem environments. A skilled technician knowledgeable and experienced in infrastructure such as code environments, automating patches and system configurations, orchestrating network operations and DevOps pipelines, automating and orchestrating operations, scaling releases, and day-to-day system operations in commercial cloud and on-prem environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide continuous development and continuous integration to include site reliability engineering and integration, release management, implementation & migration, and training & knowledge transfer.

SRE Engineering and Integration:

• Automate routine tasks and software updates, document, and maintain functional, integration, security, and load/stress testing procedure
• Document and deliver an approach for automated acceptance testing, integration/regression testing, all new applications, and all new capabilities
• Develop Ansible playbook design, role development, and testing, in non-production environments, as well as migration to production networks

Release Management:

• Participate in the development of the release management process, procedures, and policies
• Establish, manage, update, and maintain the overall Release Management Plan and Release Schedule
• Conduct site surveys, as necessary, to assess existing equipment and software being used to validate release package requirements and dependencies

Training & Knowledge Transfer

• Develop, document, and maintain work instruction materials for related Automation and Orchestration processes
• Provide training when substantive technological changes are introduced

Required Qualifications:

• BS degree and 2 – 4 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with less than 2 years of prior relevant experience. Additional related education or certifications may be considered in lieu of experience
• 1-2 years of hands-on site engineering automation
• Ability to maintain an IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP) in the first 3 months of employment
• Must possess an active DoD secret security clearance
• Must be a US Citizen
• Ansible knowledge and experience with windows necessary
• Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice (local travel)
• Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills
• Experience in CI/CD toolsets (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)Familiarity with agile development methodologies
• Skilled and disciplined to work with a distributed team
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative, forward thinking, and innovation-driven environment
• Basic understanding Azure DevOps workflows, projects, custom configurations
• Experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like PowerShell, or Python

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for automating test environments
• ITILv4, Scrum Master, or Agile SAFe certification(s) or applicable experience

NGEN

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Original Posting:

October 13, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $69,550.00 - $125,725.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.