Sr Cloud Automation Engineer

Position Title

Sr Cloud Automation Engineer

Des Moines, IA, United States

We are hiring for a Sr Senior Cloud Automation Engineer to advance our automation initiatives. This position focuses on architecting, engineering, and maintaining automation frameworks across hybrid cloud platforms. This role focuses heavily on Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD pipeline engineering, configuration management, security automation, and scalable orchestration patterns that enable fully automated infrastructure delivery.

• Design and implement automated provisioning workflows using IaC frameworks such as Terraform
  , Ansible
  , ARM/Bicep, or similar.
• Develop reusable automation modules, policies, and templates for hybrid cloud infrastructure spanning Azure, VMware, Hyper Converged platforms, and on‑premises systems.
• Engineer integration patterns between automation tooling and infrastructure platforms (compute, network, storage, security services).

• Architect and manage complex Azure Dev Ops pipelines including YAML-based multistage deployments, automated testing suites, artifact management, environment promotion, and approval workflows.
• Integrate CI/CD workflows with tools such as Git Hub, FluxCD, Jenkins, Artifactory, and deployment automation platforms.
• Implement secure pipeline practices: secrets management, identity integration, supply chain validation, and artifact integrity controls.

• Build and maintain automation logic using Ansible (playbooks, roles, inventories, Orchestrator/AWX Tower integrations).
• Develop automated remediation workflows, state‑enforcement processes, and configuration drift management.
• Enable automated OS builds, patching, baseline hardening, compliance scanning, and configuration governance.

• Engineer hybrid cloud automation patterns for Azure, OCI, VMware, and on‑prem HCI platforms.
• Build service catalog integrations and self‑service workflows for infrastructure delivery and lifecycle management.
• Optimize infrastructure performance, resiliency, and cost through automation and orchestration pipelines.

• Implement automated controls that ensure platform hardening, identity enforcement, network policy compliance, and logging/telemetry coverage.
• Conduct security assessments, threat modeling, and validation of automation workflows handling privileged operations.
• Ensure all automated workflows comply with organizational security standards and industry best practices.

• Evaluate emerging technologies in cloud automation, IaC, CI/CD tooling, and orchestration frameworks.
• Drive adoption of platform engineering standards, reusable patterns, and automation best practices.
• Maintain deep knowledge of vendor roadmaps and participate in technical escalations with cloud/service providers.

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science or related technical field or equivalent work experience. (Typically, 4 years of additional related, progressive work experience would be needed for candidates applying for this position who do not possess a bachelor's degree.)
• Ten years of related experience.
• Five years of solid experience as an automation engineer integrating tools like Jenkins, Git Hub, Artifactory, Urban code deploy (or other deployment tools).
• Three years of experience designing, creating CI/CD pipelines for various technologies using Azure Dev Ops or similar tools.
• Three years of experience in containerization platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, or Tanzu. Azure Dev Ops certification (AZ-400) a big plus.
• Demonstrated ability to engineer and operationalize continuous improvement across automation platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure services.
• Strong understanding across Cloud and infrastructure components (server, storage, network, data, and applications) to deliver end‑to‑end Cloud Infrastructure architectures and designs.
• Experienced in leading efforts to implement continuous improvements to all areas of pipeline automation and infrastructure services in order to improve the…