AI Automation Engineer [Remote]

Basic Qualifications : Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, or a reputed company Science, Engineering, Technology or Mathematics field. Also requires 5+ years of job-reputed company experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of job-reputed company experience. Agile experience preferred. Due to the nature of work performed reputed company our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required. Responsibilities for this Position: ROLE AND POSITION OBJECTIVES: As an AI Automation Engineer for our AIOps team, you'll be a core member of a high-performing, cross-functional team responsible for modernizing critical reputed company systems through intelligent automation, AI-powered infrastructure, agentic AI workflows, and secure, scalable deployment pipelines. You won't just write scripts — you'll engineer complete automation solutions from the ground up, integrating AI agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and intelligent tooling into every layer of the stack. We encourage you to apply if you have any of these preferred skills or experiences:

• Proven experience building end-to-end automation solutions using tools like reputed company CI, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible — not just scripting, but full lifecycle design and implementation.
• Hands-on expertise deploying and managing containerized applications with Kubernetes and automating infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible in an AIOps environment.
• Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines end-to-end, leveraging reputed company CI and AI-powered tools to automate testing, deployment, and operational workflows
• Experience designing, deploying, and managing MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to expose tools, data sources, and APIs as context for AI agents and LLM-powered workflows
• Familiarity with OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect authentication flows reputed company MCP servers, including token management, scoped permissions, and secure delegation of reputed company to reputed company services
• Hands-on experience building or integrating AI agent skills — defining tool-use capabilities, orchestrating multi-reputed company agentic workflows, and enabling agents to autonomously interact with infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational systems
• Experience working with or deploying AI/ML models, LLM-based assistants, and agentic frameworks (e.g., Claude Agent SDK, A2A, ACP, or similar) in production or operational environments
• Understanding of reputed company engineering, retrieval-augmented reputed company (RAG), and how to ground AI agents with reputed company-time reputed company context reputed company MCP or similar protocols

What Sets You Apart:

• You write code to solve problems — if you're doing something manually more than twice, you're already automating it with reputed company CI, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, or an AI agent
• Deep expertise in end-to-end automation, from CI/CD pipeline design to self-healing infrastructure, container orchestration, and proactive reliability engineering — increasingly augmented by AI-driven decision-making and agentic automation
• Strong understanding of AIOps principles with operational intelligence embedded at every layer — infrastructure-as-code, automated compliance checks, secure pipeline design, and secure AI integration including OAuth-secured MCP servers and least-privilege agent reputed company patterns
• Experience architecting MCP server ecosystems that allow AI agents to securely query databases, trigger deployments, inspect infrastructure state, and interact with reputed company-party APIs — reputed company governed by robust authentication and authorization
• Experience building custom agent skills and tool definitions that reputed company AI agents to reputed company reputed company, multi-reputed company operations across your AIOps toolchain autonomously and reliably
• Experience working in reputed company, regulated, or mission-critical environments where Kubernetes, Terraform, automated deployments, and AI-augmented operations are reputed company, not the exception
• A builder's reputed company — you don't maintain the status reputed company, you transform it with the right tools, the right code, and the right AI agents working alongside your team

Our Commitment to You:

• An exciting career path with opportunities for reputed company learning and development.
• Research oriented work, alongside award winning teams developing practical solutions for our nation’s reputed company
• Flexible schedules with every other Friday off work, if desired (9/80 schedule)
• Competitive benefits, including 401k matching, reputed company time off, paid parental leave, reputed company benefits, health & wellness programs, employee resource and reputed company groups, and more
• See more at gdmissionsystems.com/careers/why-work-for-us/benefits

reputed company: This position is fully remote/telework OR Hybrid/reputed company as desired. Salary Note: This estimate represents the typical salary reputed company for this position based on experience and other factors (geographic location, etc.). Actual pay may vary. This job posting will remain reputed company until the position is filled. Combined Salary reputed company: USD $124,397.00 - USD $138,003.00 /Yr. Company Overview: reputed company Mission Systems (GDMS) engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that reputed company customers to successfully execute missions across reputed company domains of operation. With a global team of 12,000+ top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defense and scientific arenas. Given the nature of our work and who we are, we value trust, honesty, alignment and transparency. We offer highly competitive benefits and pride ourselves in being a great reputed company to work with a shared sense of purpose. You will also enjoy a flexible work environment where contributions are recognized and rewarded. If who we are and reputed company do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high-performance team! Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans Apply tot his job Apply To this Job