{"id":2519255,"url":"https://alion.io/job/gigatec-engineering-automation-engineer-gigatec-engineering","title":"Automation Engineer - GIGATEC Engineering","company":{"id":3912981,"name":"GIGATEC Engineering","domain":"gigatec.net","url":"https://alion.io/company/gigatec-engineering","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"JazzHR","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Annapolis Junction, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":108000,"max_usd":242000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":3560},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab CI","optional":false},{"name":"HPC","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"VMWare","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":true},{"name":"Confluence","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-14T10:34:01Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-14","last_verified_at":"2026-10-14T19:13:56Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Perks and Benefits\n100% Paid Healthcare\n10% 401k in every paycheck\n100% Fully Vested!!!\nNOTE - Our positions require a Top Secret clearance, as well as the favorable completion of a polygraph. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor an employment Visa.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing (We don’t love the bullet points, but we love the work!)\nAs the Software Automation Engineer, you'll be part of a team responsible for executing and maintaining automated integration and system testing processes across a diverse range of HPC operating environments. This role involves the development of scripts and playbooks to be leveraged for system-level integration, development of technical documentation, coordination of integration activities, and clear communication of results to key stakeholders. In addition, the Software Integration Engineer shall conduct performance, functional, redundancy, and failover testing to ensure system stability and reliability under various conditions.\nRequired Skills\nExperience with the Linux CLI, and Linux tools\nRecent experience using Bash/Python to develop scripts to automate testing of HPC systems\nRecent Linux administration experience in an HPC multi-host/multi-instance environment\nExperience troubleshooting hardware and software issues operating in an HPC environment\nExperience with tracking and reporting issues to key stakeholders\nExperience configuring and sustaining VMware ESXi/Virtualization environments\nExperience with containerization technologies such as Docker\nExperience with IaC principles and automation tools including Ansible\nFamiliar with metrics and monitoring tools used for ingesting, indexing, searching, monitoring, and analyzing data\nDemonstrated experience with network monitoring tools, including the ability to configure, analyze, and troubleshoot network performance in HPC systems\nExperience with CI/CD principles, methodologies, and tools including GitLab CI\nExperience with Git Source Control System\nDesired Skills\nExperience with the Atlassian Tool Suite (JIRA, Confluence)\nFamiliar with Agile software development principles, methodologies, and best practices\nFluent in sarcasm, kindness, and the occasional office banter","description_format":"text","description_chars":2219,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Engineering Services","High-Performance Computing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-14T10:34:01Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":67,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-14T21:40:13Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/gigatec-engineering-automation-engineer-gigatec-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/gigatec-engineering-automation-engineer-gigatec-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-14T21:40:13Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":29109,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3912981},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3912981"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fgigatec-engineering-automation-engineer-gigatec-engineering"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fgigatec-engineering-automation-engineer-gigatec-engineering"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fgigatec-engineering-automation-engineer-gigatec-engineering"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/gigatec-engineering-automation-engineer-gigatec-engineering\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fgigatec-engineering-automation-engineer-gigatec-engineering"}]}