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Ansible Systems Automation Engineer

United States, Columbia 125000.00 - 145000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 16, 2026
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Job Description

Our client, a federal technology provider, needs a full-time Ansible Systems Engineer based out of Columbia, MD. This individual will be working a hybrid schedule, 2 days in office, 3 days remote to support internal product development teams.

Job Responsibility

  • Building out complex automation framework to deploy in a production environment to physical hardware
  • Leading implementation, design, testing and maintenance of complex Ansible playbooks, roles and modules to automate deployment of Defensive Cyber Operation kits
  • Configuring and automatic network appliances
  • Implementing security controls including STIG hardening and SELinux within the automation pipeline
  • Implementing CI/CD GitHub Action pipelines to perform extensive automatic testing

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience as an Automation Engineer or Systems Engineer in a highly regulated environment
  • Expert-level Ansible experience including playbooks, roles, modules, Jinja2, Collections, Vault, and Galaxy
  • Strong Linux administration experience, especially Fedora variants such as RHEL, Rocky, and Oracle Linux
  • Proficiency in Python and Bash for automation and custom module development
  • Experience with container and virtualization technologies such as VMware, Kubernetes, Docker, and Podman
  • Strong cybersecurity knowledge including system hardening, patching, authentication, and log management
  • Experience with Git and GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile tools such as Jira

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Excellent benefits and compensation packages

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