Automation Orchestration Engineer: Scale & Self-Service

Sonic Healthcare USA; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Sonic Healthcare USA is seeking an Automation & Orchestration Engineer to design, build, and maintain automation across our technology environment. This role will eliminate manual tasks by creating scalable workflows for infrastructure provisioning, deployment, configuration, and operational processes.

The ideal candidate combines software engineering, systems administration, and DevOps expertise to deliver self-service automation that improves efficiency, reduces risk, and accelerates service

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years in Automation Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related infra roles.
• Strong scripting with Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Go.
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Salt).
• Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi).
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI).
• Strong Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated workflows for infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and config management.
• Build and support orchestration solutions coordinating workflows across systems and environments.
• Identify manual processes and replace with scalable automation.
• Develop self-service capabilities to improve efficiency and user experience.
• Develop and maintain IaC for consistent environments.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for reliable software delivery.
• Support containerized and cloud-native environments with modern deployment practices.
• Collaborate with dev, infra, and security to scale automation.
• Integrate monitoring, alerting, and self-healing into automation.
• Troubleshoot failures and pipeline issues; perform root cause analysis.
• Improve reliability, efficiency, and platform stability.
• Create and maintain automation documentation, runbooks, and standards.
• Evaluate emerging automation tools to drive continuous improvement.
• Promote automation best practices across teams.

Skills

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Go

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Salt

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Linux

Git

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering or equivalent experience

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Salt

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Sonic Healthcare USA is seeking an Automation & Orchestration Engineer to design, build, and maintain automation across our technology environment. This role will eliminate manual tasks by creating scalable workflows for infrastructure provisioning, deployment, configuration, and operational processes.

The ideal candidate combines software engineering, systems administration, and DevOps expertise to deliver self-service automation that improves efficiency, reduces risk, and accelerates service