Infrastructure Automation Engineer

IT Infrastructure Automation Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Automation Engineer to design and build automation solutions across our data center infrastructure environment on a near-shore contract basis. This role is focused on automating data center infrastructure platforms spanning network, storage, virtualization, and operating systems, reducing manual configuration effort, improving consistency, and accelerating change delivery through infrastructure-as-code and automated workflows. The ideal candidate combines strong infrastructure engineering fundamentals with hands-on automation development experience and can operate independently in complex, multi-platform environments.

Required Automation Experience

• Terraform — Advanced experience writing and maintaining Terraform modules and providers to manage infrastructure as code
• Ansible — Advanced experience building and maintaining Ansible playbooks, roles, and inventories for infrastructure configuration management and automation
• GitHub — Experience managing infrastructure-as-code repositories, branching strategies, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub

AI-Assisted Development Practices

This role is expected to responsibly incorporate AI-assisted development tools into the automation workflow. Candidates should be comfortable using AI coding assistants to accelerate development while maintaining full ownership and accountability for the quality, security, and correctness of the resulting code. Specifically, the candidate will:

• Build a solid, well-reasoned plan before generating code, rather than relying on AI tools to define the approach
• Take full ownership of any AI-generated code, treating it as their own work rather than an unreviewed output
• Thoroughly test and validate the outcomes of automation, including AI-assisted code, before deployment to production

Platform Automation Experience (Some or All Required)

The candidate should have some working knowledge of Infrastructure Components. It can be any of these listed below:

• Linux — Automated configuration management, patching, and provisioning for Linux server environments
• Windows — Automated configuration management, patching, and provisioning for Windows server environments
• Cisco ACI — Fabric, tenant, and policy automation via Terraform/Ansible and the ACI API
• F5 Load Balancers (LTM only) — Automated virtual server, pool, and profile provisioning via Terraform/Ansible modules and the F5 API
• Palo Alto Firewalls — Automated security policy, zone, and rule management via Terraform/Ansible modules and the Palo Alto API
• NetApp Storage — Automated storage provisioning, volume management, and configuration via Terraform/Ansible modules and the ONTAP API
• DNS — Automated zone, record, and configuration management for enterprise DNS platforms
• VMware — Automated VM provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management via Terraform/Ansible and the vSphere API

Required Technical Skills

• Python — Strong scripting and development experience for building and maintaining automation tooling and modules
• Infrastructure as Code Methodologies — Solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles, including idempotency, state management, and modular design
• GitHub Actions — Experience building and maintaining automated workflows using GitHub Actions
• CI/CD & Pipelines — Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to support automated testing, validation, and deployment

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Terraform and Ansible automation across network, storage, virtualization, and OS platforms
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions workflows to support automated testing, validation, and deployment of infrastructure changes
• Convert manual infrastructure configuration and change processes into repeatable, version-controlled automation
• Collaborate with network, storage, virtualization, systems, and security teams to validate & test processes that are being automated.
• Troubleshoot automation failures and configuration drift across ACI, Nexus, routing, F5, Palo Alto, NetApp, DNS, VMware, Linux, and Windows platforms
• Contribute to and maintain team documentation, including automation runbooks, module documentation, and standard operating procedures
• Participate in change management processes, including occasional night and weekend maintenance windows
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support automation tooling and pipeline issues

Qualifications

• 7+ years of infrastructure engineering experience across networking, systems, storage, or virtualization domains
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building production automation using Terraform and Ansible
• Demonstrated experience automating one or more of: Cisco ACI, Cisco Nexus, Cisco routing, F5 LTM, Palo Alto firewalls, NetApp storage, DNS, VMware, Linux, or Windows
• Strong experience with GitHub repository management, branching strategies, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong Python scripting and development skills
• Solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code methodologies and best practices
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools, with demonstrated discipline around planning, code ownership, and thorough testing of outcomes
• Relevant vendor certifications a plus (e.g., Cisco, Palo Alto, NetApp, VMware)
• Strong written communication skills and demonstrated ability to contribute to team documentation
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently in a near-shore/remote capacity
• Availability to overlap with core business hours in Eastern Time (EST), minimum 5 hours per day
• Willingness to support occasional night and weekend work, plus participation in an on-call rotation

Work Schedule & Location

• Near-shore contract position
• Minimum 5-hour daily overlap with Eastern Standard Time (EST) required
• Occasional night and weekend work required to support maintenance windows
• Participation in on-call rotation required