Jr. Site Reliability Automation and Orchestration Engineer

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.\n, * 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\n

• 1-2 years of hands-on site engineering automation\n
• 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\n
• Must possess an active DoD secret security clearance\n
• Must be a US Citizen\n
• Ansible knowledge and experience with windows necessary\n
• Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice (local travel)\n
• Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills\n
• Experience in CI/CD toolsets (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)Familiarity with agile development methodologies\n
• Skilled and disciplined to work with a distributed team\n
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative, forward thinking, and innovation-driven environment\n
• Basic understanding Azure DevOps workflows, projects, custom configurations\n
• Experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like PowerShell, or Python\n, * Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for automating test environments\n
• ITILv4, Scrum Master, or Agile SAFe certification(s) or applicable experience\n

Provide continuous development and continuous integration to include site reliability engineering and integration, release management, implementation & migration, and training & knowledge transfer.\n \n SRE Engineering and Integration:\n \n \n

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

\n Release Management:\n \n \n

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

\n Training & Knowledge Transfer\n \n \n

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