Automation Engineer

Job Summary

Amentum is currently seeking an Automation Engineer to support an IT Managed Services program for a major national laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The overall program includes a 500+ work force performing Enterprise IT support, Service Desk, and Telecommunications support across multiple facilities and locations, for classified and unclassified telecommunications and information technology (IT) systems.

In this role you will work with a group that provides computing capabilities and in-depth support for scientific and engineering applications. This team builds and maintains user environments, delivers subject matter expert support, and application-level software and tools to the scientific and engineering communities. To be successful in this role, you will need experience with a variety of programming languages, software, or tools to develop regular or ad-hoc queries from large data-sets. Familiarity with network communication protocols, and other related protocols and the ability to implement solutions integrating Rest application program interface (API) based web services is crucial to this role.

As a member of the team, you will:

• Design and implement automation solutions that address business requirements.
• Build and review automation workflows for consistency and with a focus on improving resilience and performance.
• Perform installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of customer managed automation and orchestration tools and platforms.
• Monitor performance and troubleshoot problem areas as needed.
• Conduct research on automation products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the industry.

• U.S. Citizenship required; must not possess dual citizenship with any other country other than the United States.
• Must have a Bachelor's Degree and 2 years of experience OR an Associates Degree and 6 years of experience OR High School Diploma / GED and 10 years of experience.
• Must be able to obtain a TOP SECRET (TS) or DOE Q clearance and maintain it for the life of the contract.
• 4 years of experience with Linux (RedHat or Ubuntu) including file management, scripting, editing, and security.
• Experience in large and complex automation engagements.
• Must be able to obtain a TOP SECRET (TS) or DOE Q clearance and maintain it for the life of the contract.
• Experience with implementation and operation of one or more automation and orchestration tools and platforms such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, or Puppet.
• Experience with bash shell scripting and other languages such as Python, Perl, or Ruby.
• Strong verbal and written customer service and communications skills.
• Familiar with information security best practices.