DevOps Engineer (Ansible) - Active TS/SCI

Key Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, automate, provision, implement, manage, and scale Microsoft server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux cloud environments using Ansible Playbooks and Cloud Modules.
• Implement and enforce cloud security, risk management, and compliance best practices.
• Conduct continuous security testing and code reviews to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Contribute to architectural designs, technical documentation, and engineering solutions improving security and accessibility.
• Stay current with cloud security technologies, tools, and industry best practices.
• Design end-to-end automation workflows combining Ansible configuration management with Terraform infrastructure provisioning.

Required Qualifications

• 8-10+ years experience in information technology, systems engineering, or software development.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Current DoD 8570.1/8140 IAT/M Level III certification.
• Mastery of DevSecOps principles including securing/managing code repositories (Bitbucket, GitHub) and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps).
• Proven experience designing/deploying cloud infrastructure and containerized workloads using IaC (Terraform, Bicep).
• Proficiency in HashiCorp ecosystem (Nomad for container orchestration, Consul for service discovery/mesh networking).
• Proven track record deploying Configuration as Code (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) to extend CI/CD and standardize server configurations.

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (counts for 4 years experience).
• MS/MA, MBA, or PhD (counts for 2 years experience).
• Cloud, Automation, IaC certificates/training.
• Professional Microsoft, Linux, VMware, Network, Storage, or Cloud certifications.
• Experience in regulated environments (financial, healthcare, government).
• Ci/CD tools experience (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Agile methodologies familiarity.
• Virtualized environments experience (Azure, VMware NSX).
• ITIL Foundations certification.