Network Automation Engineer
United States of America
Full Time
4 hours ago
No H1B
Key skills
AWSNetwork AutomationCyber SecurityInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDData EngineeringSecurity ComplianceSAFe ExperienceAmazon Web ServicesAzureTerraformAnsibleCloudFormationAWS CDKLambdaS3IAMCloudWatchAzure ADSAMLActive DirectoryGitAgileLeadershipNetwork SecurityFirewall
About this role
Scientific Research Corporation is an advanced information technology and engineering company that provides innovative products and services to government and private industry. They are seeking a Network Automation Engineer to modify and implement network solutions, evaluate security risks, and provide operational support for various services, including AWS and network components.
Responsibilities:
- Modifying and implementing the network between Amazon and the USMC
- Evaluates and remediates potential security risks, where identified
- Provides operations and customer support for all services, to include, but not limited to: Operating System Maintenance
- VPC Configuration
- Ansible
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- SCCA Network Components (Cisco Routers and F5 devices)
- SCCA firewall (Palo Alto)
- Identity and Access Management - Active Directory (AD)
- Multi-Factor Authentication
- Intrusion Detection Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
- Remote Desktop Gateway (RDG)
- Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS)
- Host Based Security System (HBSS)
- Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
- Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
Requirements:
- Bachelor of science degree in engineering, physical science, physics, network security, computer science
- 10 years of experience in relevant technical field, to include: technology analysis and assessment, design definition, development of systems specification, systems analysis, systems architecture, systems/equipment integration, test & evaluation criteria, and logistics support of C5ISR requirements
- Experience with network automation
- Five years of technical experience in cyber engineering, network infrastructure, networking, server virtualization, object-oriented programming, software development, software configuration, software installation, or cloud transition, and cyber security
- Team player
- U.S. citizenship
- U.S. government security clearance at the secret level
- AWS Architecture (GovCloud Preferred)
- Deep Understanding Of AWS Core Services
- IAM (cross-account roles, STS, policy design)
- VPC (private subnets, TGW, endpoints, routing)
- S3 (lifecycle policies, bucket policies)
- Lambda
- EventBridge
- CloudTrail / Config
- CloudWatch
- Infrastructure as Code (Advanced)
- AWS CDK
- CloudFormation
- Terraform (optional)
- CI/CD & Git-Based Delivery
- Git-based workflow proficiency
- Merge request review culture
- Pipeline debugging experience
- Understanding of secure code scanning and compliance gates
- Experience designing pipelines for infrastructure deployment
- Data Engineering Fundamentals
- JSON/CSV normalization & schema design
- Index templates & lifecycle strategies
- Experience with: Data transformation in Lambda
- Event-driven ingestion
- API-based inventory collection
- Security & Compliance
- Familiarity with IAM
- SAML / IdP federation familiarity (Azure AD / Entra / ADFS helpful)
- KMS encryption patterns
- GovCloud boundary awareness
- Experience with: Security Hub
- GuardDuty
- IAM Access Analyzer
- Config rules
- General
- SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) Experience
- Recognized expert who has demonstrated industry and/or public service (e.g., federal, state, or local) leadership in Information Technology services