Systems Automation Engineer

Job Description

Salary Statement Estimated Starting Salary Range: USD $62,550.00/Yr. – USD $104,250.00/Yr. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Description The Systems Automation Engineer architects, secures, and sustains enterprise infrastructure across hybrid environments, integrating Windows and Linux systems on-premises and in AWS. This role is built on an automation-first mindset, leveraging infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization to deliver highly scalable, resilient, and secure solutions. The engineer drives standardization and operational efficiency by eliminating manual processes and enabling rapid, repeatable deployments while embedding security across the full system lifecycle to meet NIST, RMF, and STIG requirements. Infrastructure Engineering Designing, deploying, and maintaining Windows Server and Linux-based environments Administering core services including Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, and identity federation Managing Windows & Linux systems, including patching, hardening, and performance tuning Supporting virtualization platforms and associated features (Nutanix – AHV, Files, Objects) Designing HA/DR solutions with automated backup, failover, and multi-region resilience Cloud Engineering Architecting and managing AWS environments (e.g., EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, IAM, RDS, Route 53) Designing securing, scalable network architectures (e.g., VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers) Implementing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform or CloudFormation Optimizing cloud cost, performance, and availability through efficient scaling and monitoring DevSecOps Integration Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipeline