Published: Sep 03, 2025 - The Infrastructure Automation Engineer develops and documents automation technologies to streamline build, test, and deployment processes, supporting both on-premises and cloud environments. This role involves contributing to DevOps initiatives by enhancing CI/CD pipelines, automating workload deployments, and delivering self-service playbooks for internal teams. The engineer also participates in design workshops, provides automation-focused input, and ensures effective knowledge transfer to departmental staff while shaping long-term automation standards and strategies.


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1. Cloud Infrastructure Automation Engineer, The Tatitlek Corporation, Washington, DC
Job Summary:
- Contribute to bank-wide cloud adoption and governance framework.
- Collate business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Plan, implement, and operate hybrid cloud services.
- Assist the transition to Cloud SaaS and IaaS platforms.
- Prepare system solution designs, implementing complex enterprise-class systems and applications, and analysing the performance of infrastructure.
- Assist with capacity planning, and performing system upgrades and monitoring the health of all systems, infrastructure and applications.
- Coach, mentor, or train others as a subject matter expert.
- Manage small to medium-sized projects.
Skills on Resume:
- Cloud Governance (Hard Skills)
- Requirements Analysis (Soft Skills)
- Hybrid Cloud Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Cloud Migration (Hard Skills)
- System Design (Hard Skills)
- Capacity Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Technical Mentoring (Soft Skills)
- Project Management (Soft Skills)
2. Infrastructure Automation Engineer, BridgePhase, Seattle, WA
Job Summary:
- Lead/contribute to engineering efforts from planning and organization.
- Execute and deliver to solve complex engineering problems in tools and testing.
- Define and maintain policies around developer, test, and validation deployments.
- Design and build automation around deployment management.
- Design and build tooling and infrastructure.
- Drive adoption of best practices in resource utilization, organization, monitoring and maintainability of existing deployments.
- Collaborate with other teams on effective test coverage, software feature management, and spin-up of resources.
- Own and desire to build great tools for other engineers.
Skills on Resume:
- Engineering Planning (Soft Skills)
- Complex Problem Solving (Hard Skills)
- Deployment Policies (Hard Skills)
- Automation Design (Hard Skills)
- Tooling Development (Hard Skills)
- Best Practices (Soft Skills)
- Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Tool Ownership (Soft Skills)
3. Infrastructure Automation Engineer, Select Minds LLC, Dallas, TX
Job Summary:
- Administer and manage DevOps Environment, including technologies like Jenkins, Git/Gitlab and Ansible to deliver infrastructure as code.
- Maintain the automation infrastructure (Jenkins, Ansible machines, Git and more) and help improve these automated processes.
- Resolve day-to-day technical issues through Debugging, Research and Investigation.
- Develop new playbooks, roles, and code to address new requirements.
- Come up with innovative ways to improve the DevOps environment.
- Work closely with a geographically distributed team.
- Participate in scrum, sprint meetings to discuss issues and tasks.
- Install and manage Linux environment related to DevOps setup, like rpm syncs, OS deployment, and system configuration.
- Mentor and guide fellow junior colleagues.
Skills on Resume:
- DevOps Management (Hard Skills)
- Automation Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Issue Resolution (Hard Skills)
- Playbook Development (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Linux Administration (Hard Skills)
- Team Mentorship (Soft Skills)
4. Infrastructure Automation Engineer, Illumial, Chicago, IL
Job Summary:
- Realize robust, automated infrastructure.
- Independent development and implementation of various scripts and tools for automating virtual infrastructure in the private cloud (mostly Ansible, PowerShell).
- Participate in the evaluation, installation, support and administration of relevant tools used to provide infrastructure automation and cloud integration solutions.
- Support and administration of development, test and production systems, and the operation of the automation infrastructure.
- Design, create, validate, and maintain templates, blueprints, playbooks, and modules for configuration management and infrastructure deployment tools.
- Consult and collaborate with other technical roles.
- Responsible for Continual Service Improvement through automation of IT solutions, improving the effectiveness of services and decreasing failures.
- Contribute to the definition of IT technology strategy, standards, and roadmaps.
- Understand the storage systems, databases, virtualization, computing, and middleware.
- Deliver/support Root Cause analysis within the scope of responsibilities for major issues.
- Understand DR and HA concepts.
- Mentor colleagues within the team.
Skills on Resume:
- Infrastructure Automation (Hard Skills)
- Script Development (Hard Skills)
- Tool Administration (Hard Skills)
- System Support (Hard Skills)
- Template Design (Hard Skills)
- Technical Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Service Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Team Mentorship (Soft Skills)
5. Infrastructure Automation Engineer, FormAssembly Inc., Boston, MA
Job Summary:
- Due diligence of existing client’s solution, analyzing infrastructure in scope, logical inter-connectivity, service dependency, integration options and security constraints.
- Attend meetings and workshops with the client to understand requirements, challenges and risks.
- Successfully presenting and defending complex designs for critical infrastructure to senior client resources at formal review boards.
- Develop and integrate a solution in cooperation with the Infrastructure and Application project teams for solid infrastructure automation using existing industry standards, best practices and know-how, fitting it into the existing infrastructure and operations framework.
- Create designs and support documentation for the delivered solution.
- Raise change records and execute activity while adhering to the client’s processes and procedures.
- Support and troubleshooting of automation infrastructure and components delivered by the project to the client during the transition/handover period.
- Responsible for vulnerability management, platform selection, software production-feature set and load-testing for the chosen platform.
Skills on Resume:
- Infrastructure Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Client Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Design Presentation (Soft Skills)
- Solution Integration (Hard Skills)
- Documentation Creation (Hard Skills)
- Change Management (Hard Skills)
- Automation Support (Hard Skills)
- Vulnerability Management (Hard Skills)
6. Infrastructure Automation Engineer, Grande Tech Services, Austin, TX
Job Summary:
- Develop and document the existing automation technologies.
- Enhance the department's Automated build, test, and deployment capabilities.
- Assist in the department's cloud migration roadmap through the automated deployment of workloads to cloud providers.
- Assist the Applications Development team with input to the design process, to further develop DevOps continuous integration (CI) or continuous development (CD) pipelines.
- Design, create and deliver automation playbooks to enable and support service desk self-service within the organization.
- Attend design workshops and provide input to the design process from an automation viewpoint.
- Assist with ad-hoc solution design and analysis tasks.
- Effective handover of automation activities to internal departmental staff.
- Drive strategies and standards to position ICT Automation capability for the future.
Skills on Resume:
- Automation Development (Hard Skills)
- CI/CD Support (Hard Skills)
- Cloud Deployment (Hard Skills)
- DevOps Integration (Hard Skills)
- Playbook Design (Hard Skills)
- Design Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Solution Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Strategy Development (Soft Skills)
7. Infrastructure Automation Engineer, Simplesense, San Diego, CA
Job Summary:
- Provide a highly available, scalable, and secure platform that powers commercial and government products and services.
- Responsible for a platform that spans public cloud and on-premises infrastructure and involves a fair amount of open-source software.
- Act as a key member of the orchestration team, providing platform services to the company will directly impact Viasat and its millions of customers.
- Deploy and support global deployments to bare metal, virtualized, and cloud environments.
- Responsible for handling lifecycle management of applications (containers, functions, etc.).
- Write APIs that integrate with various cloud providers to evaluate and improve open source software used in terrestrial networks.
- Automate deployments as well as creating deployment frameworks and pipelines for CI/CD managed systems.
- Responsible for delivering self-service, API-driven, Infrastructure as a Service on a large scale.
- Deliver a new IaaS service catalog and need experienced DevOps-oriented engineers to join on journey.
- Work with new technologies at a scale very few companies can offer.
Skills on Resume:
- Platform Management (Hard Skills)
- Cloud Infrastructure (Hard Skills)
- Service Orchestration (Hard Skills)
- Global Deployments (Hard Skills)
- Application Lifecycle (Hard Skills)
- API Integration (Hard Skills)
- CI/CD Frameworks (Hard Skills)
- IaaS Delivery (Hard Skills)
8. Infrastructure Automation Engineer, Bayside Solutions, Bellevue, WA
Job Summary:
- Support FSA applications that require a strong sense of ownership.
- Address application issues, develop solutions, and troubleshoot end-to-end technical problems.
- Collaboratively work with development teams on application/process enhancements.
- Ensure developed solutions remain compliant with Prudential standards and use world-class industry best practices.
- Understand business needs, perform analysis, draft recommendations, and transform them into testable components while developing relationships to achieve common goals.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and how they can be applied to Prudential.
- Embrace a spirit of authentic partnership with colleagues, both internal and external to the organization.
- Support an internal IaaS solution as well as configuration management solutions.
- Define the procedures for operational engagements in the support of projects, services, and incidents.
- Liaise between Data Center Technology Teams and Management.
Skills on Resume:
- Application Support (Hard Skills)
- Issue Resolution (Hard Skills)
- Process Enhancement (Hard Skills)
- Standards Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Business Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Technology Awareness (Soft Skills)
- Team Partnership (Soft Skills)
- Operational Procedures (Hard Skills)
9. Infrastructure Automation Engineer, Inteliblue LLC, Hartford, CT
Job Summary:
- Design, implement and test tools and services to meet the project requirements.
- Develop, maintain and support system standards through configuration management, automation templates, scripting, and version control.
- Stay up-to-date on relevant technologies pertinent to the role, understand trends and opportunities.
- Ensure the continued use of the best possible techniques and tools.
- Design and maintenance of technical documentation.
- Work with cross-functional teams.
- Provide support services during project go-live, performance tuning, and transition to support operations.
- Search for a skilled Infrastructure Engineer II to join the team.
- Assist the existing team with automation efforts, primarily focused on service monitoring and reliability.
- Support the ongoing development of new services and the support of existing services.
- Lead projects from inception through implementation, working with their teammates, management, PMs, and customers to define scope and track timelines.
- Support foundational services that are used across Zulily’s growing tech teams, including the company-wide repo and CI/CD platform, monitoring platforms, knowledge and business process services, user management and auth services, and access management services.
Skills on Resume:
- Tool Development (Hard Skills)
- Config Management (Hard Skills)
- Tech Research (Soft Skills)
- Best Practices (Soft Skills)
- Documentation Design (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Go-Live Support (Hard Skills)
- Service Reliability (Hard Skills)
10. Infrastructure Automation Engineer, System Soft Technologies, Tampa, FL
Job Summary:
- Write CloudFormation templates to deploy stacks in different AWS environments (INT/QA/PROD).
- Write Lambda Functions in Python (boto3) for the automation of AWS infrastructure.
- Participate in planning, implementation, and growth of the infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Design and develop a microservices architecture for in-house legacy applications so they can be migrated to the cloud.
- Help troubleshoot issues in the cloud.
- Help set up of POC of new services offered by AWS for potential solution viability.
- Occasionally, write Bash scripts for automation in a Linux environment.
- Drive the existing test automation framework to its next level.
- Research new technologies and provide overall technical direction for the team.
- Plan and push on how to close the automation backlog.
- Communicate with teams across the organization on testing strategy and design.
- Propose improvements to the testing process to decrease defects found in production.
- Work closely with R&D teams in an Agile environment on a daily basis as part of feature teams.
Skills on Resume:
- CloudFormation Templates (Hard Skills)
- Lambda Automation (Hard Skills)
- AWS Infrastructure (Hard Skills)
- Microservices Design (Hard Skills)
- Cloud Troubleshooting (Hard Skills)
- POC Setup (Hard Skills)
- Bash Scripting (Hard Skills)
- Test Automation (Hard Skills)
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