• Collaborate with a diverse team of software engineers, engaging in iterative processes and effective task planning to drive our projects forward. • Take ownership of the availability, scalability, and performance of our services, to proactively identify issues, and implement automation to prevent the recurrence of problems. • Participate in the on-call rotation, responding to incidents and working with the team to restore service and prevent recurrence. • Contribute to automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and management using IaC principles with tools like Terragrunt and Ansible. • Help design and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to improve observability and ensure system health. • Participate in blameless post-mortems, documenting issues, and following up on action items to foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement. • Foster collaboration with other engineering teams, promoting the reuse of existing frameworks and gaining insights into their operation. • Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in SRE, DevOps, and automation.

• Join the, in epic project battles and together we will survive every storm, building an unbreakable team • Keep a cool head, becoming the team's hero when others panic • Work in GCP and/or AWSplus Terraform, and other cloud technologies on a daily basis in creative way • Love the adrenaline of crazy projects and isn't afraid of the deep end • Embrace AI as a superpower assistant in daily work - automation is theit ally, making tasks faster and simpler • Treat code pragmatically 0 as a powerful tool to achieve goals, not a sacred text -allowing for flexibility and innovation without unnecessary restrictions • Be a master of adaptation - your flexibility in changing environments is the key to success and freedom in your work!

• Champion Reliability by Design: Collaborate with architects and engineers to build resilient, fault-tolerant systems. • Observability Overhaul: Lead the charge on full-stack observability. • Scaling Systems: Develop and implement auto-scaling strategies, load testing plans, and capacity forecasting. • Progressive Delivery: Help implement and automate deployment strategies. • Incident Response: Create and refine on-call processes and incident response playbooks. • Monitoring & Tooling: Own and evolve our monitoring infrastructure. • Developer Empowerment: Build reusable templates and dashboards to empower dev teams. • Cross-functional Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with various teams for uptime and performance accountability.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description Sev1Tech is seeking an Automation Engineer to support the Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic (NIWC Atlantic) Expeditionary Enterprise Systems and Services (E2S2) Division. This is a mid-level Automation Engineer position and focuses on designing, deploying, and sustaining secure cloud-native infrastructure within a federal/defense environment. The engineer will act as a subject matter expert in AWS cloud services, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and CI/CD pipelines to ensure repeatable, compliant, and efficient IT system delivery. - Infrastructure Automation: Design and maintain repeatable infrastructure deployments using IaC methodologies (CloudFormation/Terraform). - Pipeline Management: Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and rollback (GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline). - Cloud Operations: Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and diagnostic solutions (CloudWatch, AWS Config, Splunk) to resolve complex infrastructure issues. - Integration: Facilitate the integration of AWS cloud services with on-premises systems and hybrid environments. - Collaboration & Leadership: Work with cross-functional teams (developers, security analysts) and mentor junior engineers while leading automation initiatives. - Technical Documentation: Write detailed documentation for architecture decisions, automation processes, and compliance artifacts. Qualifications - Active Top Secret Level Clearance. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer, Electrical or Electronics Engineering or Mathematics with field of concentration in computer science. - 10 years of experience with Masters or 14 years with Bachelors in Computer Engineering or Computer Science from an ABET-accredited program. - Certification/training in accordance with DoD 8570.1M / 8140 (e.g., Security+ CE, CISSP, Network+ CE). - Tooling: Hands-on experience with GitLab CI, CloudWatch, and either Python or Bash. Requirements - Cloud Platforms: Deep expertise in AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC, RDS). - Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced proficiency in CloudFormation and Terraform. - Scripting & Development: Expert-level Python, Bash, or PowerShell; experience with AWS SDKs and CLI. - Networking: Strong knowledge of VPC peering, Transit Gateway, Route 53, VPNs, and firewall management. - Configuration Management: Experience with Ansible and AWS Systems Manager. - Containers (Preferred): Familiarity with Docker, ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes. - Compliance and Security: - Federal Standards: Working knowledge of FISMA and NIST 800-53. - Security Best Practices: Implementation of IAM policies, encryption, logging, and monitoring. - Risk Mitigation: Ability to assess and mitigate risks in cloud environments specifically to meet evolving government requirements. - Access Control: Strict adherence to federal security protocols and identity management. - Flexible 4-days a week on-site and with mandatory Wednesday attendance for Engineering Sync. - Core hours are 0900 – 1400. Desired Qualifications - Professional AWS Certifications: DevOps Engineer Professional or Solutions Architect Professional. - Associate AWS Certifications: SysOps Administrator or Solutions Architect Associate. - Project/Process Certifications: ITIL or PMP. Company Description Founded in 2010 and recently acquired by ERT in early 2026, Sev1Tech, an ERT Company provides IT, engineering, and program management solutions delivery to critical missions across Federal and Commercial Clients. With its acquisition by ERT, Sev1Tech expanded its ability to offer secure, mission-aligned digital solutions to support modernization, resilience and operational effectiveness for government customers operating in highly regulated mission environments. ERT and Sev1Tech together become a fully diversified engineering and federal technology solutions firm with broad reach into space, civilian, and defense markets. Please apply directly at: https://careers-sev1tech.icims.com . For questions or to submit a referral, please contact: recruiting@sev1tech.com . Sev1Tech is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.