Infrastructure Automation Engineer (41589)

Talent Management Plus, Inc.; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Management Plus, Inc. is seeking an Infrastructure Automation Engineer to join the Jira Platform team in a remote capacity.

You will manage and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS, automate processes, and ensure high availability and security. You will monitor system health, implement alarms, and leverage serverless services like Lambda to cut costs while keeping Jira services resilient and scalable.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant experience in infrastructure and cloud engineering.
• Hands-on with one major cloud provider (AWS preferred).
• Automation scripting / DevOps mindset with security-first approach.
• Experience with monitoring, alarms, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain existing Cloud Infrastructure on AWS and its connections with outside systems.
• Automate existing processes to eliminate manual activity (logs backup, patching EC2 servers/RDS).
• Monitor system health, implement alarms and notifications (SNS/email) to prevent service interruptions.
• Enhance and optimize processes to improve resilience, availability, and cost efficiency using serverless approaches (Lambda).
• Monitor vulnerabilities and apply patches per policy; explore new options to add capabilities while reducing cost.

Skills

Experience: 4+ years

AWS

Shell scripting

Network troubleshooting

C/C++/Python/Java

AWS Certification

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

AWS

Lambda

SNS

CloudWatch

Job description

Infrastructure Automation Engineer (41589)

Position: Infrastructure Automation Engineer (41589)
Location: REMOTE

Description:
You will be an integral part of the Jira Platform team and will be expected to engage with other team members working on Jira Infrastructure design, support, and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing and maintaining existing Cloud Infrastructure on AWS and its connections with outside systems.
• Automating the existing processes to eliminate any manual activity like logs backup, patching of EC2 servers/ RDS Instance.
• Responsible for monitoring the health of the system and putting mechanisms in place that notify in case of any failure (alarms, performance insight, SNS and email) and then bring the system back to normal to avoid any service interruption.
• Enhancing and optimizing existing processes to make sure JIRA is resilient, highly available and serviceable such as making use of services that are serverless (Lambda) to minimize the cost, decrease operational management and loosely coupled system.
• Monitor vulnerability findings for servers, databases, file systems and patch them according to Client’s patch policies
• Exploring new options/ services that can improve existing infrastructure by adding additional capabilities while reducing the cost.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of relevant experience
• Hands-on experience with one of the major cloud providers (AWS preferred, GCP or Azure)
• Infrastructure Automation experience - Strong scripting skills (shell scripting)
• Strong network troubleshooting knowledge and experience
• Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work
• Should have working experience with one of the programming languages: C, C++, Python, Java
• AWS certification preferred
• Knowledge/experience supporting Jira a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering or information technology or equivalent experience