Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $107.9k - $195.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Leidos

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Leidos is a leading systems integrator in science, technology, and engineering, providing solutions that transform and enable the missions of its customers. The company operates across various markets, including aviation, defense, energy, government, healthcare, intelligence, science, and space. Leidos is involved in AI, digital modernization, cyber operations, and integrated and mission software systems. With a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability, Leidos also engages in charitable efforts and community enrichment programs. Additionally, it contributes to developing solutions for counter-unmanned aerial systems and electric vehicle infrastructure for military applications.

📋 Description

• Architect and implement the SEC enterprise infrastructure and operations automation capability using Ansible Automation Platform and Ansible • Establish reusable AAP organizations, projects, inventories, credentials, execution environments, job templates, workflows, RBAC, and operational standards • Develop and maintain reusable Ansible roles, playbooks, collections, and workflows for infrastructure configuration, software deployment, agent deployment, upgrades, patching, and operational procedures • Integrate GitHub Enterprise with AAP for governed, auditable Git-based source control, review, testing, and promotion • Integrate AAP with CyberArk or approved secrets-management capabilities • Design and implement API-driven and event-driven automation with Datadog, ServiceNow, and other enterprise systems • Build automation for Datadog onboarding, agent deployment, configuration, tagging, upgrades, and observability tasks • Develop authorized, safe, auditable automated-remediation workflows with rollback considerations • Support automation across Windows, Linux/Unix, OpenShift/Kubernetes, virtualization, storage, networking, and other infrastructure domains • Collaborate with the OpenShift/Kubernetes GitOps and CI/CD engineer on integrated automation and application-delivery workflows • Establish development, testing, approval, and production-execution standards • Identify automation opportunities and engineer reusable solutions that reduce repetitive work and operational toil • Develop and validate automation in lower environments and test failure and rollback behavior • Document architecture, standards, integrations, runbooks, usage guidance, and support procedures • Work collaboratively with engineering teams to establish a cohesive enterprise automation capability

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires a BS degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience • Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree requirements where permitted by contract • Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise infrastructure, configuration-management, or operations automation • Strong experience with Ansible and/or Ansible Automation Platform in production environments • Experience designing reusable automation including roles, playbooks, collections, inventories, credentials, execution environments, jobs, and workflows • Experience using Git-based workflows to develop, review, test, and promote automation content • Experience integrating automation platforms with APIs, webhooks, ITSM systems, secrets-management systems, or monitoring/observability platforms • Experience administering or engineering automation controls such as RBAC, service accounts, credentials, execution environments, and audit logging • Production experience automating Windows and Linux/Unix infrastructure and at least one of Kubernetes/OpenShift, virtualization, cloud, storage, or network platforms • Strong scripting and programming skills using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or comparable languages for automation and API integration • Strong troubleshooting, systems integration, and technical problem-solving skills across infrastructure and enterprise platforms • Ability to architect solutions, evaluate alternatives, document technical decisions, and communicate recommendations to technical teams and customer stakeholders • Must meet applicable contract citizenship and work authorization requirements and be able to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust or other required clearance • Preferred: Direct experience designing or administering Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform at enterprise scale • Preferred: Experience with AAP organizations, execution environments, workflows, inventories, service accounts, credential management, RBAC, and API-driven execution • Preferred: Experience integrating AAP/Ansible with CyberArk, ServiceNow, Datadog, GitHub, or comparable enterprise systems • Preferred: Experience with event-driven automation and automated remediation triggered by monitoring/observability platforms • Preferred: Experience supporting OpenShift/Kubernetes infrastructure and container platforms • Preferred: Experience with GitOps/CI/CD platforms and understanding of how infrastructure automation complements application delivery pipelines • Preferred: Experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform or comparable tools • Preferred: Experience building automation platforms and standards from the ground up • Preferred: Experience in federal environments governed by FISMA, NIST, FedRAMP, or similar security requirements • Preferred: Relevant certifications in Ansible, Red Hat, Kubernetes, cloud, automation, or related disciplines