Linux Automation Engineer
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Job Location:
Linthicum, MD - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 104000 - 166000
Posted on:
26-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Responsibilities
Description:
As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence space cyber defense civilian health and state and local markets. Peraton is seeking a Linux Automation Engineer to join our team of qualified diverse individuals.
The Linux Automation Engineer is needed to help maintain on premises and cloud Kubernetes environments. This position would help in the administration and configuration of Kubernetes environments to facilitate application hosting. Deploying applications in an automated containerized fashion on Kubernetes help in the scalability reliability and maintenance while reducing cost and improving performance. Integration with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines will also increase productivity and faster time to deployment. This position would be responsible for the maintenance and integration of the multiple on premises and cloud hosted environments.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build components encompassing network security identity governance development and operations in Azure cloud environments.
- Operationalize solutions from proof-of-concept through production using automation for repeatability maintainability and to enforce standards
- Proven automation-first mindset with a focus on efficiency and scalability.
Schedule:
- Core hours are 0930-1430 Monday-Friday to ensure overlap with the team attendance is expected outside of this window as needed to support meetings deployments and team activities.
- The system administration team is expected to have on-site coverage 0600-1800 Monday-Friday and schedules will be coordinated with other members of the team to ensure this coverage.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 3 years with Masters degree; 0 years with PhD. Masters degree must be in one of the following disciplines: Information Systems Information Technology Software Engineering Computer Science Data Science or Cybersecurity.
- In lieu of a Masters degree candidate must possess an additional 6 years of relevant experience and one of the following active certifications: SecurityX/CASP CCNP Security CCSP FITSP-O or GFACT.
- Minimum Clearance Requirement: Active Secret.
- Expertisemanaging Red Hat (RHEL) systems with Ansible Playbooks
- Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git) and their integration into CI tools (e.g. Gitlab CI).
- Active IAT Level II certification.
- Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS Azure) (Primarily Azure).
- Knowledge of Kubernetes systems and deployments.
- Proficiency in containerization technologies.
- Expertise deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters.
Nice to Haves:
- Experience automating execution of Ansible playbooks through tools such as AWX Ansible Tower Run Deck or GitLab.
- Experience deploying and managing observability and monitoring platforms such as Grafana SolarWinds or similar.
- Experience deploying and managing SIEMs such as Splunk.
- Basic ability to program in languages such as Java Python or C#.
- Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools (GitLab CI).
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies such as Terraform.
Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Target Salary Range
EEO
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- APIs
- Automotive software
- Test Cases
- Electrical Engineering
- Junit
- Distributed Control Systems
- Testng
- Java
- Test Automation
- Programmable Logic Controllers
- Selenium
About Company
Peraton provides innovative solutions for the most sensitive and critical programs in government today, developed and executed by scientists, engineers, and other experts.
