Automation/Cloud Services Network Administrator

About the role

ActioNet is seeking an Automation/Cloud Services Network Administrator with a Secret clearance for a position located in San Diego County, CA. This role requires 7+ years of experience in Infrastructure IT Operations, 5+ years of software automation and development experience, and a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Implement automation across all layers - infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, deployment, testing, and operation.
• Retool infrastructure to provide an agile foundation that provides joint infrastructure management and automation framework.
• Interface directly with staff members within the organization to discuss and assess compliance with IT policies, standards and procedures and suggest opportunities for improvement.
• Build automation to configure applications, networks, and services, in a production, testing, and development environment.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to identify and automate processes to reduce technical debt, set up CI/CD pipelines, and optimize build/testing/deployment times.
• Work with testing and development teams throughout the testing life cycle ensuring timely integration.
• Commit all automation code and supporting files to source control (git and GitLab repositories).
• Train operations team members to use the automation the team builds.
• Configure and administer cloud technologies in hyperscale cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP among others.
• Configure and administer cloud services in an on-premises platforms (e.g., Azure Stack family of systems, Amazon Snow family of systems, etc.).

Requirements

• Documented network and system administration experience.
• Documented virtualization technology experience (e.g. VMWare, KVM, Red Hat Virtualization, Windows Hyper-V, Linux etc.).
• Experience with source control using git and GitHub/GitLab repositories.
• Experience leading medium to large projects by bringing together the right perspectives, identifying roadblocks, and integrating feedback from clients and team members.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Infrastructure IT Operations.
• 5+ years of software automation and development experience.
• 2+ years scripting language experience.
• Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level II certification.
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation.
• Cloud Computing certifications (e.g., Azure Administrator, AWS Associate Level Cert, etc.).
• Experience with on-premises cloud technologies (e.g., Azure Stack, Amazon Snow, etc.).

Desired Position Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in IT Operations in relation to Systems & Network Architecture, and AI/ML environments.
• Previous experience in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) or DevOps role.
• Experience in distributed systems design and integration architectures of business applications using micro services, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructures.
• Experience or familiarity with either Amazon Web Services (AWS) features or management, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Azure.
• Experience in creating and running Ansible playbooks, both CLI (Ansible Core) and AWX/Tower/AAP (Ansible Automation Platform).
• Python scripting, including scripts that call APIs like AWS and ServiceNow.
• Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-a-code platform.
• Strong passion for quality assurance in development, including experience in finding, investigating, and fixing bugs.
• Excellent communication skills.

Benefits

• Miscellaneous benefits include medical insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) savings plan, education and professional training, flexible spending accounts (FSA), employee referral and merit recognition programs, employee assistance and identity theft protection, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO).

Pay

$150,000/year

Schedule

Full-time