# SRE – Jr. Automation Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Norfolk, VA
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $69,550.00 - $125,725.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The U.S. Navy's Service Management, Integration, and Transport (SMIT) program has an opening for a Jr. Site Reliability Automation and Orchestration Engineer on a high-visibility DoD program. This position will provide many opportunities to challenge and grow your skills.

**Position Summary:** 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.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Provide continuous development and continuous integration to include site reliability engineering and integration, release management, implementation & migration, and training & knowledge transfer.

- Automate routine tasks and software updates, document, and maintain functional, integration, security, and load/stress testing procedure.

- Document and deliver an approach for automated acceptance testing, integration/regression testing, all new applications, and all new capabilities.

- Develop Ansible playbook design, role development, and testing, in non-production environments, as well as migration to production networks.

- Participate in the development of the release management process, procedures, and policies.

- Establish, manage, update, and maintain the overall Release Management Plan and Release Schedule.

- Conduct site surveys, as necessary, to assess existing equipment and software being used to validate release package requirements and dependencies.

- Develop, document, and maintain work instruction materials for related Automation and Orchestration processes.

- Provide training when substantive technological changes are introduced.

**Required Qualifications:**

- BS degree and 2 – 4 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with less than 2 years of prior relevant experience.

- 1-2 years of hands-on site engineering automation.

- Currently possess an IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP).

- Must possess an active DoD secret security clearance.

- Must be a US Citizen.

- Ansible knowledge and experience with windows necessary.

- Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills.

- Experience in CI/CD toolsets (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab, etc.).

- Familiarity with agile development methodologies.

- Basic understanding Azure DevOps workflows, projects, custom configurations.

- Experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like PowerShell, or Python.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for automating test environments.

- ITILv4, Scrum Master, or Agile SAFe certification(s) or applicable experience.

**Pay Range:** $69,550.00 - $125,725.00

## Skills

### Required
- Ansible
- Python
- PowerShell
- Azure DevOps
- CI/CD toolsets
- agile development methodologies
- automated script design
- coding
- debugging
- maintenance skills

### Nice to have
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- ITILv4
- Scrum Master
- Agile SAFe certification

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