AWS Automation Engineer

$74,600 - $156,700/Yr

CACI International - Springfield, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Springfield, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The AWS Automation Engineer at CACI is responsible for building and automating resilient infrastructure essential for business operations. This role involves collaborating with peers and customers to enhance automation in virtualized and containerized environments, requiring strong coding skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Take a leadership role in designing, building, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure.
• Mature the automation efforts of the lifecycle of a server including onboarding, patching, and sunsetting.
• Help development teams onboard applications to Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Build and maintain Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Use and administer automation tools such as Ansible and Salt.
• Write documentation and provide training around automation tools.
• Ensure all authored code is well documented and version controlled appropriately via git.
• Resolve escalated issues and perform root cause analysis for complex issues.
• Support development teams by ensuring the supporting CI/CD infrastructure is performant, stable, and kept up-to-date.
• Interact with both internal and external customers during all project phases, from planning to maintenance.
• Be mindful of customer needs and clearly communicate complex information.
• Demonstrate a high attention to detail, examining every aspect of the system.
• Exercise strong time management skills by taking on multiple projects simultaneously while debugging issues reported by customers.
• Be attentive to communication and productivity tools ensuring inquiries are responded to in a timely manner.
• Recommend system improvements and changes to systems, as needed.
• Participate in an on-call rotation including nights/weekends.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Systems Engineer or similar experience.
• IAT II certification and obtain CSSP Infrastructure Support certification within 120 days of hire.
• Advanced understanding of Linux.
• 4+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: Kubernetes, Infrastructure as code managing Salt or Ansible.
• Experience working with automation tools such as Ansible.
• Experience with one or more of these scripting languages: YAML, Python, Bash, and/or Ruby.
• Experience using version control tools such as Git.
• Willingness to work on-call rotation including nights/weekends.

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits
• Wellness programs
• Financial benefits
• Retirement plans
• Family support
• Continuing education opportunities
• Flexible time off benefits