Senior Automation Engineer

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The Senior Automation Engineer serves as a technical lead for the design and evolution of the Foundation Technology Services (FTS) enterprise automation platform. In addition to hands‑on engineering, this position is responsible for defining automation architecture, establishing reusable technical patterns and standards, and leading complex initiatives that span multiple infrastructure and service domains.

The Senior Automation Engineer will determine how technologies such as Service Now, Terraform, Ansible Automation Platform, CI/CD platforms, Red Hat Open Shift, Argo CD, Datadog, and enterprise infrastructure systems work together as a cohesive automation framework. The position will guide technical decisions involving orchestration, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, monitoring, security, and operational readiness.

This role requires broad enterprise infrastructure experience and the ability to work across networking, storage, compute, virtualization, security, and application delivery. The Senior Automation Engineer will mentor other engineers, lead architecture and code reviews, collaborate with technical teams across FTS, and remain actively involved in implementation, prototyping, and troubleshooting.

• Serve as a technical lead for the design and evolution of the FTS enterprise automation platform, providing architectural direction while remaining actively involved in implementation and troubleshooting.
• Define how Service Now, Terraform, Ansible Automation Platform, CI/CD tooling, Open Shift, Argo CD, Datadog, and enterprise infrastructure systems should integrate into a cohesive automation architecture.
• Establish reusable architectural patterns, engineering standards, and reference implementations for Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, orchestration, CI/CD, Git Ops, monitoring, security, testing, and operational readiness.
• Lead the design and implementation of complex automation workflows that span multiple enterprise domains including compute, networking, storage, virtualization, security, identity, and application delivery.
• Set technical direction for Red Hat Open Shift automation, including containerized applications, virtual machines, networking, storage, security, lifecycle management, and Git Ops delivery patterns.
• Establish observability by default as an architectural requirement, defining reusable Datadog integration patterns for infrastructure, applications, logging, metrics, health checks, dashboards, alerting, and service ownership.
• Lead cross‑functional automation initiatives with networking, storage, security, systems, application, and service‑management teams, resolving architectural and integration issues that cross organizational boundaries.
• Review automation architecture, Terraform modules, Ansible content, pipeline design, and code produced by other engineers; identify technical debt and drive improvements in maintainability, scalability, reliability, and security.
• Mentor engineers and technical teams in Infrastructure as Code, automation, source control, CI/CD, APIs, Open Shift, and related engineering practices, helping teams adopt and contribute to common automation capabilities.

1. Demonstrated experience designing and implementing automation for complex enterprise infrastructure environments, including substantial experience with several of the following:
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