Systems Engineer – Ansible Automation

Location

Location: Columbia, MD

Type: Hybrid

Travel: 10%

Sealing Technologies, a Parsons Corporation company, is a trusted partner in providing powerful edge computing hardware and defensive cybersecurity solutions to protect the Federal Government and private enterprises. Our goal is to support the federal government, our allies, mission partners, and private industries in accomplishing their cybersecurity and defense objectives efficiently and securely through cutting‑edge hardware, engineering, and integration services.

Sealing Tech is looking for a talented and experienced Systems Engineer to join our dynamic team of engineers delivering cutting‑edge solutions. You will be performing hardware and software integration, cybersecurity and systems engineering, and mission support in mostly unclassified spaces in support of our warfighters.

You will be engineering a complex automation framework to deploy a production environment to physical hardware. This includes automating networking, server hardware, operating systems, containers, software, virtualization and more to build a cohesive and integrated environment for cyber defenders.

• Lead the design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of complex Ansible playbooks, roles, and modules to automate the deployment of Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) kits.
• Collaborate with software development teams across the company to create highly parameterized Ansible that aligns the software product stack, transforming project requirements into robust automation solutions.
• Configure and automate physical hardware and network appliances Avrupa such as routers and firewalls, using Ansible.
• Implement security controls, including STIG hardening and SELinux, within the automation pipeline to ensure “secure by default” deployments.
• Implement CI/CD Git Hub Action pipelines to perform extensive automatic testing.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure technology standards, security controls, and engineering practices are well understood and consistently applied.
• Partner with internal teams to deliver technical demonstrations and showcase Sealing Tech capabilities to customers.
• Identify and define high‑level functional and technical requirements by working with the user community and leveraging knowledge of existing DoD enterprise architectures.

• U.S. Citizenship
• 8+ years of experience as an Automation Engineer and/or Systems Engineer
• Expert proficiency in Ansible; including and not limited to:
  • Writing, testing, and maintaining Ansible playbooks, roles, and modules, with a deep understanding of Jinja2, Collections, and configuration management
  • Leveraging Ansible Galaxy for reusable components and Ansible Vault for managing sensitive data
  • Utilizing Ansible for configuring and automating physical hardware and network appliances (e.g., routers, firewalls)
  • Strong analytical and debugging abilities to resolve complex issues within automation workflows
• Deep hands‑on experience with Fedora‑based Linux distributions (RHEL, Rocky, Oracle) schließen administration of drivers, firmware, file systems, networking, and security
• Proficiency in Python and Bash for custom:" modules and advanced automation
• Experience with virtualization and container platforms (e.g., VMware, Kubernetes, Docker/Podman)
• Strong understanding of core cybersecurity concepts, technologies, and methodologies and understanding of infrastructure security, hardening processes, techniques, and industry best practices
• Experience with network protocols, architecture design, and defense‑in‑depth practices
• Understanding of best practices for security patching, authentication, and log retention
• Experience operating within security frameworks to support compliance and auditing requirements
• Experience with Git/Git Hub, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Git Hub Actions), and Agile (project management) workflows (Jira)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document and maintain engineering processes and procedures.
• Must have an active driver’s license and clean driving record.

• Experience supporting Defensive Cyber Operations…