Automation, Tech Lead ( Hybrid - 3 Days in Office - VA)

$132,000 - $198,000/Yr

Freddie Mac - McLean, VA

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - McLean, VA

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The Automation Tech Lead at Freddie Mac will play a crucial role within the Automation Engineering team, contributing to the Automation Center of Excellence (COE). This position focuses on designing and supporting automation frameworks, enhancing service delivery through automation tools, and mentoring junior developers. The role is pivotal in transforming how business units request platform services, ensuring efficient and secure automation processes.

Responsibilities

• Support Automation framework design
• Support Automation framework tools (add/replace/remediate vulnerabilities)
• Develop Automation framework core automation provisioning & retirement services
• Develop Automation framework security and collaborate with Information Security Architecture, Vulnerability teams, and remediation owners
• Perform automation development work within ServiceNow to create/support Service Catalog Order Guides and Catalog Requests
• Assist in troubleshooting Automation COE Automation Service Owners on their Ansible collection/role automation
• Collaborate, consult, and deliver automation framework training
• Provide ongoing automation training/mentoring to junior automation developers and/or other engineering resources

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 - 10 years of overall IT infrastructure experience with strong IT Automation background
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, related discipline or equivalent work experience
• Strong scripting and/or programming skills in one or more modern languages such as Python, Java-script, PowerShell, Json, YAML, Ansible
• Strong usage of DevOps CI/CD pipeline and build tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Rafay, Gitlab/hub, Artifactory, Bitbucket
• Experience with REST API programming and system integration across multiple IT tools
• Senior administration-level experience with Linux and/or Windows operating systems
• Strong experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence collaboration tools as well as ServiceNow

Nice-to-haves

• Expert in Public Cloud Hyper-scalers: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
• Expert in Ansible, Shell, Python, Json, Yaml
• Expert in SAST/DAST Tools
• Intermediate in Atlassian Confluence and Jira
• Expert in Agile methodologies
• Expert in CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket, Artifactory, Jenkins
• Expert in basic networking; IP subnets, subnet mask, CIDR blocks, DNS, Load Balancing, Firewall
• Expert in Firewall source and destination TCP/UDP port access

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Market-leading benefit programs
• Annual incentive program