Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Summary

We are seeking a senior technical leader for the role of Infrastructure Automation Manager to direct and execute our enterprise-wide end-to-end automation strategy. This role bridges traditional on-premises data centers, private cloud hypervisors, container platforms, and public cloud environments into a unified, code-driven delivery ecosystem.
With 12 to 15 years of industry experience, you will manage a specialized team of automation, infrastructure, and network reliability engineers. You will drive declarative infrastructure practices across bare-metal systems, hyperconverged/virtualization layers (Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere), enterprise container fleets (Red Hat OpenShift, native Kubernetes), and software-defined network hardware (Cisco, Arista, Juniper switches and routers). You will own the full operational lifecycle—from architecture alignment and automated rollouts to fleet hygiene, automated DR failover, L3 support escalations, and executive operational reporting.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Enterprise Automation Framework: Define and enforce declarative automation standards across hybrid environments spanning on-premise data centers, private clouds, and multi-cloud landing zones.

   

• Virtualization & HCI Automation: Architect automated provisioning, node expansion, and policy baselines across VMware vSphere/vCenter (vROps, PowerCLI, Terraform vSphere provider) and Nutanix AHV/Prism Central (Calm, Prism APIs).

   

• Container Platform Orchestration: Standardize deployment, node scaling, and operator lifecycle automations for Red Hat OpenShift and native Kubernetes clusters across bare metal and virtual platforms.

   

• Network as Code (NetDevOps): Champion automated configuration, deployment, and validation of physical and virtual network infrastructure (leaf-spine fabrics, switches, routers, firewalls, and load balancers) using Ansible, NAPALM, Nornir, and NetBox as a single source of truth.

   

• Unified Pipeline Orchestration: Build and manage enterprise GitOps pipelines (ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins) that drive zero-touch provisioning for compute, storage, virtualization, and network layers.

   

• Multi-Tier IaC & Configuration: Direct the authoring, testing, and modularization of production-grade Terraform modules, Ansible playbooks, Python automation frameworks, and Kubernetes Helm/Kustomize manifests.

   

• Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP): Establish automated PXE/IPXE booting, bare-metal imaging, switch boot-strapping, and dynamic host/hypervisor configuration workflows.

   

• Rolling Cluster & Hypervisor Lifecycle: Coordinate and automate rolling non-disruptive upgrades across VMware ESXi, Nutanix AOS/AHV, and OpenShift/Kubernetes worker and control-plane nodes.

   

• Configuration Drift & Compliance: Implement continuous drift detection and compliance auditing tools to guarantee that on-prem hardware, network device configurations, and cloud workloads strictly match source-controlled code baselines.

   

• Automated Patching & Vulnerability Remediation: Build automated orchestration pipelines for monthly firmware updates, hypervisor security patches, base OS updates, and network OS (NOS) upgrades.

   

• L3 Operational Support: Serve as the senior escalation manager for critical automation, networking, hypervisor, and platform outages, leading cross-functional debugging sessions.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Virtualization & HCI: Extensive, production-level expertise automating and administering VMware vSphere/vCenter and Nutanix (AOS, AHV, Prism Central).

   

• Container Orchestration: Hands-on experience configuring, automating, and operating Red Hat OpenShift and native Kubernetes at scale (CNI, CSI, Operators, Helm, Kustomize).

   

• NetDevOps & Network Automation: Proven track record automating physical switch and router configurations (Cisco IOS-XE/NX-OS, Arista EOS, Juniper Junos) using NetBox, Ansible, Python (Netmiko, Nornir), or Terraform.

   

• Automation & IaC Tooling: Deep proficiency with Terraform, Ansible/Ansible Automation Platform (Tower/AWX), and Git-driven CI/CD systems.

   

• Scripting & Development: Advanced scripting abilities in Python, Go, Bash, or PowerShell for custom API integrations and operational tooling.

   

• Resiliency & DR: Proven experience automating enterprise backup, snapshotting, and disaster recovery architectures (Veeam, Velero, Zerto, or native storage replication).

   

• Observability: Strong working knowledge of telemetry pipelines, SNMP/gNMI collectors, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/OpenSearch dashboards.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.

• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data. Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.

Typical Experience

• 12 to 15 years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, network operations, and DevOps.

• 3+ years in a people management or technical lead capacity.

Typical Education

• Bachelor's Degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience. 

• Educational requirements may vary by geography. 

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.