Jr. Site Reliability Engineer (Automation & Orchestration)

Location

Norfolk, VA

Security Clearance: Active Secret or higher [Required]

Job Type: Full-Time

Target Salary Range*:$80,000 - $125,000

• This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary

Position Overview

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Support the U.S. Navy’s Service Management, Integration, and Transport (SMIT) program by providing engineering support to the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI).

This role performs hands-on engineering and testing in virtualized and on-premises environments, automates patches and system configurations, orchestrates network operations and DevOps pipelines, scales releases, and supports day-to-day operations in commercial cloud and on-premises environments.

Key Responsibilities

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Site Reliability Engineering, Automation, and Integration

• Provide continuous development and continuous integration, including site reliability engineering, integration, release management, implementation, migration, training, and knowledge transfer.
• Automate routine tasks and software updates.
• Document and maintain functional, integration, security, and load/stress testing procedures.
• Document and deliver an approach for automated acceptance and integration/regression testing of all new applications and capabilities.
• Design Ansible playbooks, develop roles, and conduct testing in non-production environments before migration to production networks.

Release Management

• Participate in developing release management processes, 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 and validate release package requirements and dependencies.

Training and Knowledge Transfer

• Develop, document, and maintain work instructions for automation and orchestration processes.
• Provide training when substantive technological changes are introduced.

Qualifications

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Education

• BS degree. [Required]

Experience

• 1–2 years of hands-on site engineering automation experience. [Required]
• Hands-on engineering and testing experience in virtualized or on-premises environments. [Required]
• Experience designing, coding, debugging, and maintaining automated scripts. [Required]
• Experience with CI/CD toolsets, such as Jenkins or GitLab. [Required]
• Experience automating tasks using scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python. [Required]

Skills

• Ansible knowledge and experience with Windows. [Required]
• Knowledge and experience with infrastructure as code environments, patch and system configuration automation, network operations and DevOps pipeline orchestration, release scaling, and daily commercial cloud and on-premises operations. [Required]
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies. [Required]
• Basic understanding of Azure DevOps workflows, projects, and custom configurations. [Required]
• Self-motivation and the discipline to work with a distributed team. [Required]
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative, forward-thinking, innovation-driven environment. [Required]

Certifications

• Ability to obtain an IAT Level II baseline certification within the first 3 months of employment, such as CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, or SSCP. [Required]

Clearance

• Ability to qualify for a Secret clearance. [Required]

Other Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen. [Required]
• Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice (local travel). [Required]

Preferred Qualifications

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• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation, to automate test environments.
• ITIL v4, Scrum Master, or Agile SAFe certification(s), or applicable experience.