Chef Automation Engineer
Sterling, VAContractPosted 10y agoStill listed today
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Job overview
US Tech Solutions is seeking a Chef Automation Engineer for a 6–12 month engagement in Sterling, Virginia. The role focuses on automation and continuous delivery across applications, containers, security, infrastructure, and compliance. The engineer will develop and maintain Chef cookbooks, manage repositories and monitoring systems, support OS template releases and HP hardware, and troubleshoot Chef deployments.
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Company Description
US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide-range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit our website www.ustechsolutions.com. We are constantly on the lookout for professionals to fulfill the staffing needs of our clients, sets the correct expectation and thus becomes an accelerator in the mutual growth of the individual and the organization as well.
Keeping the same intent in mind, we would like you to consider the job opening with US Tech Solutions that fits your expertise and skillset.
Job Description
Position: Chef Automation Engineer Duration: 6-12 Months Location: Sterling, VA Interview: Phone & F2F(Can do Skype with Non-Locals)
Qualifications
Description of Services: Need a Chef Automation Expert to work on automation and continuously deliver applications, containers, security, Infrastructure and Compliance.Requirements and Criteria:
- Chef cookbook development and upkeep
- FTP/sftp management (proftp administration and account creation)
- Cobbler/kickstart (cookbook and system upkeep)
- OMD/Check_Mk (monitoring of system health and upkeep)
- Corporate Yum repository management
- Jenkins cookbook testing and release (fix failed jobs and increase code/test quality)
- AWS yum repository management includes cookbook verification
- Security CVE updates to yum repo and cookbooks
- OS template creation and release (creation the vmware template and place on all clusters)
- HP hardware/chassis tier3 type support
- Chef deployment troubleshooting
Additional Information
Chandra Kumar 201-549-2655 Chandra at ustechsolutionsinc com
How this job compares
Set against the 2,316 open Automation Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Virginia median$94–130K/yr85 salary ranges
- US median$36–57/hr202 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 101 open Automation Engineer jobs in Virginia and 2,316 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- M. C. Dean27 open
- Amazon12 open
- Actalent4 open
- Experience
- Automation Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (1,924 postings).
- Education
- 1,030 of the 2,316 open Automation Engineer jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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