Principal Infrastructure Automation Engineer
A Principal Infrastructure Automation Engineer is a senior technical leader who designs, develops, and implements large-scale automated solutions to streamline IT operations and manage complex infrastructure environments. This role balances deep technical expertise with strategic planning and mentorship responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities
• Strategic Leadership: Define the strategy and long-term goals for automation and control systems across the organization. This includes evaluating and recommending automation tools and technologies and ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Architecture & Design: Lead the design and development of robust, scalable, and secure automation frameworks and infrastructure blueprints often using Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Implementation & Execution: Oversee the implementation of automation solutions for provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment often within CICD pipelines. This may involve managing projects budgets and external vendors.
• Technical Expertise & Troubleshooting: Serve as the subject matter expert SME for highly complex issues, performing root-cause analysis and providing technical consultation.
• Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentor and guide junior engineers and cross-functional teams (e.g., SREs, QA, and product teams) on automation best practices, code quality, and design patterns.
• Compliance & Security: Ensure all automated systems comply with internal security standards and external regulatory requirements (e.g., FDA, ISO, FedRAMP, specific industry regulations).
• Monitoring & Improvement: Implement comprehensive monitoring and logging systems using the gathered data to drive continuous improvement in efficiency, reliability, and performance.
Essential Skills and Qualifications
Experience
Typically requires 10 years of experience in software development, IT automation, and/or infrastructure engineering.
Education
A Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field is often required.
Technical Proficiency
• Automation Tools: Extensive experience with tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, or AWS CloudFormation.
• Programming: Strong skills in languages such as Python, Java, PowerShell, or Bash for automation and tooling.
• Cloud Platforms: Expertise in managing scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure in environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• DevOps Tools: Proficiency with CICD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring tools like Prometheus or Grafana.
Soft Skills
• Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills.
• Strong communication and leadership abilities with a proven ability to influence senior levels and build alignment across teams.
• Strong project management skills to manage complex, large-scale projects from concept to completion.
Compensation
Compensation may vary depending on your location, qualifications, including job-related education, training, experience, licensure, and certification. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonuses and sales incentives, depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role, as well as individual performance.
NY: Generally ranges $165,550 - $248,324.
CA: Generally ranges $172,748 - $259,122.
All Other Locations: Fall under our General State range $143,957 - $215,935.
Benefits
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Cloud Software Group and the country where you work. U.S.-based employees are typically offered access to healthcare, life insurance, and disability benefits, 401k plan, and company match, among others.
About Us
Cloud Software Group is one of the worlds largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom counts on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done - from anywhere. We value passion for technology and the courage to take risks. Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap - a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it.
Equal Employment Opportunity
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