Automation Engineer

Automation Engineer Job Location s

US-NM-Albuquerque

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking an Automation Engineer to support the IT program at a major national laboratory.

Successful candidate shall have experience with automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Puppet and Chef. Experience in UNIX, Linux and/or Windows operating systems, including file management, scripting, editing and security. Experience with a variety of programming languages, software or tools to develop regular or ad‑hoc queries from large datasets. Familiar with network communication protocols and other related protocols. Ability to implement solutions integrating REST application program interface (API) based web services.

• Daily Stand‑up
• Kubernetes cluster operation and maintenance
• Creation and maintenance of container images for various COTS and OSS tools
• Development and maintenance of Helm charts for various COTS/OSS tools as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings
• Deployment and maintenance of customer instances of COTS/OSS tools using Helm charts
• Assisting customers with container builds and Kubernetes deployments of their own applications
• Development and maintenance of tools used to accelerate development, deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, and automation, using Bash and/or Python
• Server deployment and maintenance using Ansible for repeatable system builds and administration

• BS in relevant discipline plus minimum 1 year or more years of directly related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the job.
• Must have active DOE Q Security Clearance.
• Must be US Citizen.
• On‑site work is required.

• Able to communicate with technical customers / developers directly.
• Able to communicate effectively with a team, with daily check‑in meetings, frequent chats, frequent collaboration, and occasional real‑time collaborative emergency technical problem‑solving.
• Familiar with system administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or its derivatives.
• Comfortable with container technologies, such as Docker/podman, and with container orchestration, such as docker-compose or Kubernetes.
• Familiar with using configuration management, such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Familiar with git VCS.
• Familiar with build automation tools, such as Jenkins, Git Lab-CI, Git Hub Actions, or Travis CI.
• Capable of scripting and developing tools in Bash and Python.

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000‑1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2025.

It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other statuses protected by applicable law.