Infrastructure Automation Architect

Hydro One Limited; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Hydro One Limited is seeking an experienced Enterprise Infrastructure Automation Architect on a 11-month contract to lead design, standardization, and automation of enterprise infrastructure services across on-premises and cloud environments.

You will provide technical leadership to a team of infrastructure engineers, establish scalable IaC frameworks, and ensure patch management, deployment pipelines, and compliance reporting for Windows and Linux platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Up to 10 years of progressive experience in systems engineering, infrastructure architecture, and enterprise automation.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams and large-scale infrastructure transformation initiatives.
• Strong experience with Windows and Linux server administration, cloud platforms, automation frameworks, and Infrastructure as Code practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of infrastructure and automation specialists.
• Design and implement a standardized enterprise deployment framework across Windows and Linux environments.
• Build and maintain automated deployment pipelines that support build, test, deployment, validation, and rollback activities.
• Establish governance models for patch management, compliance reporting, and change management integration.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code initiatives using modern automation and source control practices.
• Act as the primary liaison between executive leadership, project stakeholders, and technical teams.
• Standard server build templates
• Mandatory software baseline
• Security baseline controls
• Monitoring agents
• Security agents
• Backup agents

Skills

Technical leadership

Windows and Linux administration

Cloud platforms

Automation frameworks

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline; Master’s degree is an asset

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Job description

Infrastructure Automation Architect (Contract)

Contract (11 months)

Published 1 month ago

Infrastructure

VMware

Automation

windows

This is a temporary contractor position for an existing vacancy.

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Infrastructure Automation Architect to lead the design, standardization, and automation of enterprise infrastructure services across on-premises and cloud environments. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership to a team of infrastructure engineers and establish scalable frameworks for software deployment, patch management, configuration management, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and compliance reporting across Windows and Linux platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of infrastructure and automation specialists.
• Design and implement a standardized enterprise deployment framework across Windows and Linux environments.
• Build and maintain automated deployment pipelines that support build, test, deployment, validation, and rollback activities.
• Establish governance models for patch management, compliance reporting, and change management integration.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code initiatives using modern automation and source control practices.
• Act as the primary liaison between executive leadership, project stakeholders, and technical teams.
• Standard server build templates
• Mandatory software baseline
• Security baseline controls
• Monitoring agents
• Security agents
• Backup agents

Automated Deployment Framework

Transition from manual installation, patching, and validation activities to a fully automated CI/CD-driven infrastructure deployment model based on code commits, automated testing, deployment, validation, and reporting.

• Monthly patch management cycle
• Emergency patching process
• Testing and validation requirements
• Rollback and recovery procedures
• Compliance and audit reporting

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Maintain server configurations in source control repositories and automate provisioning using tools such as Azure DevOps, Git, Terraform, Ansible, and related deployment technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline. Master's degree is considered an asset.
• Up to 10 years of progressive experience in systems engineering, infrastructure architecture, and enterprise automation.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams and large-scale infrastructure transformation initiatives.
• Strong experience with Windows and Linux server administration, cloud platforms, automation frameworks, and Infrastructure as Code practices.

Additional Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present technical and strategic recommendations to executive and technical leadership audiences.

Hybrid work environment requiring on-site attendance two days per week (Monday and Wednesday) at the Acronym office located at 65 Kelfield Street, Etobicoke, Ontario.