Cloud Infrastructure Automation Engineer - MQ | Plano, TX / Charlotte, NC / Jersey City | W2 ONLY

Matlen Silver; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, and dental insurance (

401(k) plan (employee contributions)

Job summary

Matlen Silver is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Automation Engineer to join our Plano/Charlotte/Jersey City area team. The role focuses on hands‑on automation using Ansible and Terraform to provision and manage hybrid infrastructure across on‑prem and public cloud environments.

You will translate business and infrastructure requirements into practical automation, automate MQ workflows, and collaborate with infrastructure, application, and business teams in an Agile setting.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Ansible and Terraform for infra automation.
• Ability to translate business needs into automation solutions.
• Experience automating across on‑prem and cloud environments.
• Familiarity with VMware, Windows and Linux in automation tasks.
• Experience with IBM MQ and basic to mid-level MQ concepts.

Responsibilities

• Build automation to provision, configure, and manage infrastructure across endpoints.
• Automate workflows across VMware, Windows, Linux, and public cloud environments.
• Translate business or infra requirements into technical automation solutions.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, and operational tasks.
• Support MQ environments, including on‑prem IBM MQ and cloud messaging techs.
• Work in an Agile environment with infra, app, and business teams.

Skills

Ansible

Terraform

MQ (Message Queue)

IBM MQ

AWS

Azure Event Hubs

VMware

Windows

Linux

Agile

Cloud automation

Tools

Terraform (infrastructure as code)

Ansible automation scripts

MQ environments automation

Public cloud APIs

Job description

Job Title: Cloud Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Duration: 12-18 months

Location: Plano, TX / Charlotte, NC / Jersey City (local candidates only, in-person interview required)

Required Pay Scale: $80-$85/hr - W2

***Due to client requirements this role is only open to USC or GC candidates***

We are looking for a hands‑on infrastructure automation engineer who can translate business and infrastructure requests into technical solutions and build the automation to deliver them. The ideal candidate will have strong Ansible and Terraform experience, hands‑on development skills, and experience automating infrastructure across on‑premises and public cloud environments.

• Ongoing infrastructure automation and cloud engineering initiatives
• Build and maintain automation that can provision, configure, and manage infrastructure across multiple endpoints
• Automate workflows across VMware, Windows, Linux, and public cloud environments
• Support messaging and event‑driven infrastructure across on‑premises and cloud platforms
• Work in an Agile environment and collaborate with infrastructure, application, and business teams

Must-Haves / Required Skills

• Strong hands‑on experience with Ansible, including developing and maintaining automation/playbooks
• Strong hands‑on experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation and provisioning
• Hands‑on development/coding experience; able to build and troubleshoot automation rather than simply execute existing scripts
• Experience translating business or infrastructure requirements into technical automation solutions
• Experience automating across on‑premises infrastructure and public cloud environments
• Experience with MQ (Message Queue) at a basic to mid-level
• Experience with IBM MQ in both on‑premises and cloud environments
• Experience with AWS, particularly Amazon MSK
• Experience with Azure Event Hubs
• Experience automating against multiple infrastructure endpoints, such as:
• VMware
• Windows
• Experience working in an Agile development environment

What They’ll Do

• Build infrastructure automation using Ansible and Terraform
• Develop automation that can interact with VMware, Windows, Linux, AWS, Azure, and other infrastructure endpoints
• Translate requests from business and infrastructure teams into practical technical solutions
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, and operational tasks
• Support and automate MQ environments, including on‑premises IBM MQ and cloud‑based messaging technologies
• Work with AWS MSK and Azure Event Hubs as part of cloud messaging/event‑driven solutions
• Develop and troubleshoot automation code and scripts
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, application, and business teams in an Agile environment
• Identify manual infrastructure processes that can be automated and develop solutions to improve efficiency and consistency

Nice‑to‑Haves

• Deeper IBM MQ administration or engineering experience
• Experience with additional AWS/Azure infrastructure services
• Python or other scripting/programming experience
• Experience integrating automation with APIs and infrastructure management platforms
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure deployment
• Financial services or other large enterprise experience

Experience Matters. Let your experience be driven by our experience. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Led by hard work, honesty, and a trusted team of experts, we can say that Matlen Silver technology has created a solutions experience and legacy of success that is the difference in the way the world works.

Matlen Silver is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, the presence of a non‑job‑related medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at email and/or phone at: [e-mail] // 908-393-8600

At The Matlen Silver Group, Inc., W2 employees are eligible for the following benefits:

• Health, vision, and dental insurance (single and family coverage)
• 401(k) plan (employee contributions only)