DevOps Automation Engineer

Role Summary

The DevOps Automation Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for designing, building, and maintaining automation that supports DevOps platform-centric workloads across GitHub, GitLab Self-Managed, Azure DevOps, and related cloud-hosted engineering services.

This role is hands-on and execution-focused, with primary emphasis on creating durable, maintainable automation that improves platform operations, service consistency, scalability, and reliability. The position requires deep technical working knowledge of Python and Ansible, along with strong capability in Bash, PowerShell, Git, infrastructure-as-code tooling, and API-driven integration patterns.

The role is expected to combine direct engineering execution with sound technical judgment, disciplined implementation practices, and the ability to drive work initiatives from concept through operational use.

Primary Mission

Create automation that enables, supports, and improves DevOps platform-centric workloads across enterprise development platforms and related engineering services.

Environment

• Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)
• AWX
• GitHub Actions
• GitHub
• GitLab Self-Managed
• Azure DevOps
• Azure
• AWS

Core Technologies

• Python
• Ansible
• Bash
• PowerShell
• Git
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform
• REST APIs
• HTTP-based service integrations

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain automation solutions that support DevOps platforms such as GitHub, GitLab Self-Managed, and Azure DevOps.
• Build reusable automation using Python, Ansible, Bash, and PowerShell with strong emphasis on maintainability, readability, supportability, and standard engineering patterns.
• Develop and manage automation workflows across GitHub Actions, AAP, and AWX to support provisioning, integration, platform operations, lifecycle activities, and service consistency.
• Implement infrastructure and platform automation using Git-based workflows, infrastructure-as-code practices, and Terraform where appropriate.
• Create automation that interfaces reliably with REST APIs, HTTP services, and platform-native integration points.
• Troubleshoot and resolve automation failures, playbook defects, workflow issues, integration problems, and platform-related scripting issues across engineering and operational environments.
• Improve and refactor existing scripts, playbooks, and workflows to reduce fragility, improve reuse, and align with durable engineering practices.
• Build automation with appropriate logging, diagnostics, input validation, and error handling to support operational visibility and supportability.
• Apply secure engineering practices for automation, including appropriate handling of credentials, tokens, secrets, and privileged access patterns.
• Produce and maintain clear technical documentation for scripts, playbooks, workflow designs, operational procedures, and engineering standards.
• Partner with platform engineering, operations, security, and adjacent technical teams to implement effective and supportable automation solutions.
• Drive assigned work initiatives from design through implementation, operationalization, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• 5–7 years of relevant experience in automation engineering, DevOps engineering, platform engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Deep technical working knowledge of Python, including the ability to write structured, maintainable, production-quality automation code.
• Deep technical working knowledge of Ansible, including playbook development, role-based organization, variable management, orchestration patterns, and troubleshooting.
• Strong scripting capability in Bash and working knowledge of PowerShell.
• Strong understanding of Git-based workflows and version-controlled automation delivery.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, AAP, AWX, and Terraform.
• Strong working knowledge of REST APIs, HTTP interactions, service integration patterns, and common authentication approaches used in automation.
• Experience building and supporting automation for DevOps platform engineering and CI/CD-related workloads.
• Experience working across platforms and environments such as GitHub, Azure, AWS, GitLab Self-Managed, and Azure DevOps.
• Strong troubleshooting, diagnostic, and problem-solving capability in complex technical environments.
• Ability to design automation using sound engineering principles, including modularity, maintainability, logging, validation, and failure handling.
• Ability to document technical solutions clearly and communicate effectively with engineering and operational stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in a hybrid model and execute with a high degree of ownership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing or supporting GitLab Self-Managed environments.
• Experience building automation for enterprise DevOps platforms and platform-centric engineering services.
• Experience with reusable automation frameworks, shared libraries, and standards-based automation patterns.
• Familiarity with secure automation practices, secrets management patterns, and audit-aware engineering in enterprise environments.
• Experience with event-driven automation, webhook-based integrations, and multi-system orchestration.
• Familiarity with Linux-based platform operations and administration concepts relevant to automation-driven engineering work.
• Experience improving platform reliability, reducing manual operational effort, and standardizing engineering workflows across teams.
• Experience automating backup, restore, and recovery-oriented workflows using Rubrik, Cohesity, or similar platforms via API for DevOps or DevOps platform-centric workloads.

Candidate Profile

• Strong hands-on engineer with an IC-heavy orientation.
• Builds automation that is durable, maintainable, and production-usable rather than narrowly task-focused.
• Comfortable moving between scripting, workflow design, API integration, troubleshooting, and operational enablement.
• Able to take partially defined problems and translate them into effective engineering solutions.
• Demonstrates initiative, follow-through, technical judgment, and practical execution discipline.
• Balances speed of delivery with maintainability, operational quality, and long-term supportability.

Work Model

Hybrid

Optional Short Posting Version

The DevOps Automation Engineer is a senior individual contributor focused on building automation for DevOps platform-centric workloads across GitHub, GitLab Self-Managed, Azure DevOps, and related cloud-hosted engineering services. The role requires deep technical working knowledge of Python and Ansible, plus strong capability in Bash, PowerShell, Git, Terraform, REST APIs, and HTTP-based integrations. Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, AAP, and AWX is required. The position is responsible for creating maintainable automation, improving platform operations, supporting CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code workflows, troubleshooting complex technical issues, and driving work initiatives through implementation in a hybrid work environment.