Jr. Site Reliability Engineer (Automation & Orchestration)

Job summary

Provides engineering, automation, and site reliability support for the Navy Marine Corps Intranet in virtualized, on-premises, and commercial cloud environments. The role develops and tests Ansible automation, scripts patches and system configurations, supports CI/CD and release management, and documents automated testing and operational procedures. It also contributes to network operations, release planning, training, and knowledge transfer in classified environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree.
• One to two years of hands-on site engineering automation experience.
• Hands-on engineering and testing experience in virtualized or on-premises environments.
• Experience designing, coding, debugging, and maintaining automated scripts.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab.
• Experience automating tasks with PowerShell or Python.
• Knowledge of Ansible and experience with Windows.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code, patch and configuration automation, network operations, DevOps pipeline orchestration, and cloud and on-premises operations.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and Azure DevOps workflows, projects, and custom configurations.
• Ability to obtain an IAT Level II baseline certification within the first three months of employment.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Ability to support classified program execution and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice.
• Active Secret clearance or higher.

Responsibilities

• Support continuous development, continuous integration, site reliability engineering, integration, release management, implementation, and migration.
• Automate routine tasks, software updates, patches, and system configurations.
• Document and maintain functional, integration, security, and load or stress testing procedures.
• Develop approaches for automated acceptance, integration, and regression testing of new applications and capabilities.
• Design Ansible playbooks and roles, and test them in non-production environments before production migration.
• Maintain the Release Management Plan and Release Schedule, and contribute to release processes and procedures.
• Conduct site surveys to assess equipment, software, release requirements, and dependencies.
• Develop and maintain work instructions for automation and orchestration.
• Provide training and knowledge transfer when substantive technology changes are introduced.

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