Automation Engineer Jobs in Virginia

Summary
Position Title: Application Systems Engineer (JIRA-LINUX-AUTOMATION)
Position ID: TA249
Location(s): On-site; Chantilly, VA
Application Deadline: We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis
Security Clearance Requirement: Top Secret / SCI Security Clearence

Job Description
Trusted Space is seeking a mid-Level Enterprise Applications Engineer in Chantilly, VA to support our Department of Defense (DoD) customer as part of a highly talented, motivated, and high‑performing team. In this role, you will serve as a Database Engineer supporting the design, development, automation, and sustainment of technologies hosted on a complex, cloud-based infrastructure environment. You will partner across all support tiers, O&M, and development teams to enhance enterprise capability, including Jira and Confluence. Your contributions will directly support the mission success of our government customer and a wide range of tenant stakeholders. Join us and help drive the next generation of innovation as we advance critical capabilities across the space domain mission area.


Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal and external partners to define requirements, design automated solutions, and validate customizations across the enterprise service portfolio.
• Build and operate automated environments for Jira, Confluence, and other enterprise services developing Ansible playbooks to standardize configuration, deployment, and patching within the cloud environment to meet evolving business and mission requirements.
  • Design, configure, and customize collaboration spaces and service components using macros, widgets, extensions, and native platform tools to support workflow automation and team-specific processes.
  • Automate routine administration into repeatable, version-controlled, and to reduce manual effort and prevent configuration drift across supported services.
  • Support Configuration Management for Jira, Confluence, and other service environments by documenting changes, testing in sandbox environments, and ensuring compliant, consistent updates.
  • Develop and maintain workflows and process configurations across Jira and other supported services to enforce consistent, automated task execution.
  • Assign and manage secure, role-based access controls (RBAC) across Jira, Confluence, and other enterprise applications.
• Stage and validate offline packages, updates, and repositories for deployment across the environment
• Implement permission models, notification schemes, screens, and other configuration changes across supported services with a focus on consistency and maintainability.
• Evaluate, manage, and deploy add-ons and platform extensions across multiple enterprise services.
• Administer and sustain RHEL: patch, break-fix, restore, and supply hardening inputs to the security team.
• Operate the backing database (PostgreSQL preferred): run backups, apply patches, monitor health, and test restores on a defined cadence.
• Troubleshoot across the full stack this role owns, from the application down through the OS and database.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 5+ years of experience; OR a master's degree with 3+ years' experience. Additionally, four (4) years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Compliance with DoD 8140 requirements at the intermediate level, including possession of appropriate IT certifications (Security+, CASP, CISSP, etc.).
• Familiarity with the Atlassian product lifecycle, including upgrades and installation/configuration of add-ons.
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, secure, and accredit Jira and Confluence deployments in classified or air-gapped environments.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience engineering, installing, configuring, and sustaining Jira and Confluence Data Center (not Cloud-only).
• Experience supporting migrations between environments (e.g., Jira/Confluence Server to Data Center), including full planning and execution.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, building, and operating automation for enterprise services using Ansible or Ansible Automation Platform, including writing and maintaining playbooks for configuration, deployment, and patching in production.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience administering RHEL or Linux in production environments, including patching, break/fix, and system restore.
• Operational database administration experience (PostgreSQL preferred), including backup, restore, and patching.
• Understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, HTTPS, firewalls, SSO, and SAML.
• Familiarity with LDAP integrations between Jira/Confluence and Active Directory.
• This position requires the candidate to possess an active TS/SCI Security Clearance.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Experience working with Windows and/or UNIX systems within a Jira environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with management, government customers, and tenant stakeholders across the DoD.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience supporting DoD customers.
• Familiarity with current DoD systems and associated security policies and procedures.
• Highly detail‑oriented and process‑driven, with the ability to multitask and work with minimal supervision.

Compensation
The salary range for this role is $120,000 - $180,000. Please note that this range is a general guideline and can vary. Trusted Space, LLC considers several factors when extending an offer including, but not limited to: scope, location, position responsibilities, education/training, key skills and business considerations.

Benefits
Trusted Space seeks to create an environment where Employees are empowered and supported to achieve their full potential. We encourage life-long learning within our agile and innovative work environment. We offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans; life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; 401(k) plan; paid holidays and generous paid time off; short-term and long-term disability insurance; and other benefits to promote health, wellness, and a positive work-life balance.

About Trusted Space
Trusted Space is the premier provider of trusted autonomy and battlespace management software solutions enabling machine speed sensing, sense making, decision making, and acting for critical space and intelligence missions. Our portfolio includes trusted autonomy software products, real-time image processing capabilities, advanced space mission engineering services, and space operations & training solutions. We empower government and commercial customers to achieve mission superiority in space reconnaissance & surveillance, dynamic space operations, space-based ISR, and ground/command & control (C2) systems.

Rooted in our adherence to the Golden Rule – to treat others as we want to be treated – Trusted Space fosters a culture of innovation, mission-focus, agility, and technical excellence. We offer a collaborative and supportive work environment, world-class benefits, and work-life balance. We encourage life-long learning and continuous improvement in all we do. We consider it a privilege to work with our customers to provide solutions to their most difficult national security and intelligence challenges.

Trusted Space, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, veteran status, disability status or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. All aspects of employment are decided based on qualifications, merit, competence, performance, and business need.

DISCLAIMER: Trusted Space, LLC only uses the respective domains of trustedspace.com and trustedspace.us for official contact and any other domains are likely a scam and do not originate from our company. Trusted Space will never ask a candidate for access or pass codes to personal accounts including e-mails, bank accounts, CashApp, Paypal, Venmo, etc.