Sr Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Full-time - Senior

Menomonee Falls, WI

Machinery Manufacturing

About the position

As a Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer, you will design, implement, maintain and optimize automation solutions to streamline operations across our hybrid infrastructure. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable and supportable systems while mentoring junior engineers. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.; Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of automation strategies that align with our organization's long-term technology goals
• Collaborate with infrastructure platform operations, security, and development teams to identify pain points and implement automated solutions.
• Leverage your expertise in programming, networking and servers to create robust, scalable automation tools
• Continuously evaluate and integrate emerging technologies and best practices in infrastructure automation
• Serve as a subject matter expert, providing guidance and mentorship to team members on automation techniques and tools
• Contribute to the organization's digital transformation initiatives by enabling more agile and responsive platform operations
• Develop automation scripts/tools to manage network devices, servers (Linux/Windows), and storage systems.
• Design and implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and configuration.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated systems for regular Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) testing.
• Automate network provisioning, configuration, and monitoring (Juniper, Aruba, Palo Alto).
• Automate server lifecycle management (provisioning, patching, scaling).
• Implement storage automation for allocation, snapshots, and replication.
• Partner with Security, and Cloud teams to integrate automation workflows.
• Analyze performance metrics to identify optimization opportunities.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's in Computer Science, IT, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience: 5-7 years in infrastructure automation, with expertise in networking, servers, and storage.
• Possess excellent time management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in Python, PowerShell.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible.
• Networking: VLANs, BGP, VPNs, SD-WAN.
• Storage: SAN/NAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel.
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and hybrid environments.

Nice-to-haves

• Certifications: Terraform Associate, or equivalent. Ansible Engineer.
• Experience with Kubernetes/Docker and multi-cloud architectures.