Automation Engineer
Location: Arlington, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-08-17
Category: Software
Subcategory: DevSecOps
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_HYBRID
Description
We are seeking an Automation Engineer to work together across our DevOps teams, building broad expertise in infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and platform support. You'll have a designated team home but will routinely participate in cross-team projects, training, and knowledge sharing, gaining hands-on exposure to a diverse set of tooling and environments.
This role requires 1 day each week onsite in Rosslyn, VA.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain, and support CI/CD pipelines and automation in both cloud (GitLab, AWS, EKS, Terraform, Docker) and on-prem (Jenkins, OpenShift, Ansible) contexts.
- Participate in infrastructure provisioning and application deployment automation across both environments.
- Troubleshoot, document, and continuously improve deployment, monitoring, and security automation for all platforms.
- Engage with both the cloud and on-prem teams, proactively learning primary and secondary stacks through onboarding, peer programming, and joint solutioning.
- Share learnings and best practices across the DevOps organization to reduce silos and accelerate overall capability.
Qualifications
Required Education & Experience:
- Bachelors and 5+ years or more experience; Masters and 3+ years; may accept additional experience in lieu of degree.
- Experience developing, maintaining, and supporting CI/CD pipelines and automation in both cloud (GitLab, AWS, EKS, Terraform, Docker) and on-prem (Jenkins, OpenShift, Ansible) contexts.
Required Clearance:
- ship.
- Active secret clearance.
Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects.SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .