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Automation Engineer

Insight Global, Inc.

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Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$130,000 - $140,000
IT - QA and Test
Radford, VA (On/Off-Site)

** Can site REMOTE with travel to Radford VA

Travel – Will need to understand travel will be two days a week and sometimes three.
- How often – Could be once a month or if they need to all push for a deliverable, could be three weeks one month.

Position Duties:
•                     Work with Government engineers to develop and maintain the automation and DevSecOps framework for supporting the AECC environments.
•                     Develop, deploy, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines and automated configuration management for Kubernetes-based containerized solutions.
•                     Automate the installation, configuration, and ongoing management of Kubernetes clusters, including CNI (Container Network Interface) and CSI (Container Storage Interface) integrations.
•                     Work with hosted customers of AECC to provision customer enclaves utilizing the automation framework and container orchestration tools.
•                     Harden the automation tools and containerized environments per commercial best practices and required government cybersecurity controls.
•                     Develop and maintain system, infrastructure, and process documentation (system diagrams, network topology, software configurations, device configurations, standard operating procedures).
•                     Troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis of issues within Kubernetes clusters, containerized applications, and automation frameworks.
•                     Provide on-call support for triage and resolution of after-hours production incidents.
•                     Make recommendations for improvements to automation framework to include implementing new tools, replacing existing tools with more capable tools, and possibly develop new service offerings to hosted applications.
•                     Promote automation concepts, processes, and benefits across the ALTESS organization.
•                     Review and document "as-is" IT environments, perform a gap analysis to articulate automation options and recommendations to improve the current state.

Required Skills:
•                     Senior-level experience with a variety of automation, secrets management, configuration management tools (Terraform, Vault, Ansible, GitLab, etc.).
•                     Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) environments, including activities around automated network configurations, server deployments, software provisioning, monitoring, and testing.
•                     Knowledge and experience with containerization and container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker, Red Hat OpenShift, etc.).

Desired Skills:
•                     Working knowledge of DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and the Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) process, or industry hardening best practices and processes.
•                     Experience automating Kubernetes cluster deployments.
•                     Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, BASH, etc.) for automation tasks.
•                     Experience writing Ansible playbooks for enterprise operations tasks and structuring playbooks into roles.
•                     Strong troubleshooting skills across Kubernetes clusters, containerized applications, and automation frameworks.

Required Certifications:
•                     Security+ or equivalent DoD 8570.01-M IA Tech Level II certification.
•                     Must have (or obtain within 6 months of hire) a computing environment certification as defined in DoD 8570.01-M, such as an automation, DevOps, or Kubernetes industry certification.

Clearance Required:
•                     DoD Secret

Position Location:
•                     Radford, VA(Hybrid telework/onsite as needed)
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