Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer - JB

Job Description

The most security‑conscious organizations trust Telos Corporation to protect their vital IT assets. The reputation of our company rests on the quality of our solutions and the integrity of our people. Explore what you can bring to our solutions in the areas of cyber, cloud and enterprise security.

Salary range: $ – $. Telos offers an excellent compensation package with benefits including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, tuition reimbursement, and a 401(k). Employees enjoy more than just a great work environment.

This position will be based at Reston, VA.

As a Linux and Ansible Automation Engineer on our project, you will 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 will provide the customer with insight into their Linux environments through automated monitoring, system hardening, configuration management, and performance optimization. You will work closely with mission partners and 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 will help the team better understand what is possible by turning early wins into repeatable methodologies and communicating their value to leadership.

• Current TS/SCI with CI Poly security clearance
• 10+ 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 using 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
• Associate’s degree and 5+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, or Master’s degree and 1+ year of experience supporting IT projects and activities
• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT Level III Certification such as SecurityX (formerly CASP+), CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), GCED, GCIH, CCSP certification within 30 days of start date
• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 Cybersecurity Service Provider — Infrastructure Support Certification (CSSP‑IS), including CEH, CySA+, GICSP, SSCP, CHFI, CFR, Cloud+, or CND Certification 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

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