Director, Infrastructure Automation & Platform Engineering

Oculusit; New Haven (CT); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

OculusIT is seeking an experienced Engineering Leader to drive infrastructure automation strategy and standards in a large-scale environment. You will architect cohesive automation ecosystems across multiple domains, lead lifecycle automation initiatives, and partner with infrastructure teams to embed automation into daily operations.

You will mentor a high-performing automation/platform engineering team, promote ownership and collaboration, and push continuous modernization while ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Significant experience in infrastructure automation, platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure leadership.
• Hands-on expertise with Ansible, Terraform, IaC, CI/CD, and configuration management.
• Demonstrated success implementing automation at scale across multiple infrastructure domains.
• Strong understanding of ITSM, change/incident/problem management, observability, SRE, and infrastructure reliability.
• Proven experience managing, mentoring, and developing technical teams.
• Strong program management, organizational, communication, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute an enterprise-wide infrastructure automation strategy.
• Establish standards and architecture for IaC, CI/CD, configuration management, and automation frameworks.
• Build a cohesive automation ecosystem across infrastructure domains rather than siloed solutions.
• Lead the design and delivery of automated infrastructure lifecycle processes, including provisioning, patching, scaling, upgrades, and decommissioning.
• Partner with infrastructure engineering teams to embed automation into day-to-day operations.
• Drive repeatable, code-based infrastructure patterns and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Leverage automation to improve change reliability and safety.
• Patch and lifecycle compliance; incident response and recovery.
• Integrate automation with observability and monitoring platforms to generate actionable telemetry.
• Define and track metrics such as automation coverage, patch compliance, and automated change success rate.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing automation/platform engineering team.
• Coach engineers across experience levels and promote technical growth.
• Foster ownership, collaboration, engineering rigor, knowledge sharing, and continuous modernization.

Skills

Infrastructure automation leadership

Platform engineering

DevOps teams management

Ansible

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD

Configuration management

SRE

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

OculusIT is seeking an experienced Engineering Leader to drive infrastructure automation strategy and standards in a large-scale environment. You will architect cohesive automation ecosystems across multiple domains, lead lifecycle automation initiatives, and partner with infrastructure teams to embed automation into daily operations.

You will mentor a high-performing automation/platform engineering team, promote ownership and collaboration, and push continuous modernization while ensuring