# Automation Engineer - Patching

What success looks like in this role: U.S. Citizenship and Residency Required Job Summary: We are seeking a motivated Automation Engineer with 3-5 years of experience to replace repetitive manual tasks across our Steady State teams (Windows, Linux, Storage, and Backup) with reliable, reusable automation. The role focuses on automating patch management across the environment using tools such as Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, HashiCorp Vault, Terraform, and the JFrog Artifactory suite (Xray, Catalog, and Curation). Key Responsibilities: Partner with Windows, Linux, storage, and backup teams to understand patch management cycles and identify opportunities to automate patching activities. Analyze ServiceNow patching tickets to identify recurring manual tasks and quantify their frequency and effort across Windows, Linux, storage, and backup environments. Prioritize patch management automation opportunities based on patch severity, operational risk, and impact across Windows, Linux, storage, and backup systems. Develop reusable Ansible playbooks and roles to automate patch management procedures Use Terraform to maintain repeatable infrastructure configurations that support patch management w

- **Id**: 3996989
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/unisys-automation-engineer-patching>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T01:36:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4859
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Infrastructure & Networking Services, IT Help Desk & Service Desk, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, Systems Integrators

## Company

- **Id**: 6839
- **Name**: Unisys
- **Domain**: unisys.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/unisys>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 80
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.863
- **Repost share**: 0.013
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: no
- **HashiCorp Vault** — Optional: no
- **ITSM** — Optional: no
- **JFrog Artifactory** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **ServiceNow** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T01:36:48Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 41 · green card filings: 4; Filings 12m: 41

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T03:57:40Z

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