Automation Services Engineer

Akkodis is seeking an Automation Services Engineer in Leesburg, Virginia, to join a highly visible infrastructure and platform engineering team responsible for building and supporting the core platform that powers engineering across the organization. This role is ideal for an automation-focused engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, integrating technologies, and building scalable infrastructure solutions that enable others to be successful.

The ideal candidate will have strong Linux systems administration experience, a passion for automation, and a proven ability to design and implement reliable infrastructure-as-code solutions. You will work across systems, networking, CI/CD, virtualization, and open-source technologies while contributing to emerging internal AI initiatives. Employer paid medical benefits!!

MUST BE A UNITED STATES CITIZEN FOR THIS POSITION

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure automation frameworks using Ansible and related tools.
• Develop, manage, and optimize CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitLab for validation, testing, and deployment activities.
• Design and implement repeatable, reliable system configurations using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles.
• Automate system and service installation, configuration, patching, and validation processes.
• Build and maintain nightly and continuous validation pipelines to identify configuration drift and ensure platform health.
• Integrate and operationalize open-source tools and platforms into cohesive infrastructure solutions.
• Deliver platform services and automation tooling that support internal engineering teams.

Required Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience administering Linux systems in production environments.
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools, including: Ansible; Puppet; Chef; Salt
• Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitLab.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code methodologies.
• Experience working within Git-based workflows and version control best practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across multiple layers, including: Operating Systems, Networking Services and Applications

If you are interested in this Automation Services Engineer position in Leesburg, Virginia, please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis go to www.akkodis.com. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, term life insurance, short-term disability insurance, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits and 401K plan. Our program provides employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs which are direct hire to a client

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.