Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer

Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer

The Opportunity:

We're looking for a Linux engineer and automation specialist to help us design, deploy, and grow automated solutions for an enterprise environment that is actively modernizing. As a Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer on our project, you'll be on the ground floor of building something meaningful by developing automation frameworks, establishing best practices, and laying the foundation for scalable infrastructure in a mission‑critical environment.

You'll provide the customer with insight into their Linux environments through automated monitoring, system hardening, configuration management, and performance optimization. You'll work closely with mission partners and various stakeholders to understand their current pain points and translate them into automation solutions that reduce manual effort and operational risk. Your technical expertise will be vital as you identify where automation can make the biggest immediate impact while keeping an eye on long-term architecture.

You'll help your team better understand what's possible by turning early wins into repeatable methodologies and communicating their value to leadership.

Location:

Reston, Virginia. Join us.

• 5+ years of experience administering Linux‑based environments such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (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 with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Puppet, or Chef.
• Experience with Bash, Python, or Power Shell.
• 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.
• Associate’s degree and 5+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years, or Master’s degree and 1+ years.
• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT LevelIII certification such as SecurityX, formerly CASP+, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP, GCED, GCIH, or CCSP certification within 30 days of start date.
• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 Cybersecurity Service Provider – Infrastructure Support Certification (CSSP‑IS) within 30 days of start date.

• Experience with VMware vSphere administration and managing virtual machines.
• Experience in Kubernetes, container platform operations, cluster lifecycle management, workload orchestration.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Net App storage solutions and designing or maintaining enterprise backup and recovery solutions.
• Knowledge of version control concepts and Git.

Projected compensation range: $86,800.00 to $ (annualized USD). This range reflects the typical salary for this position and is one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.