Infrastructure Automation Engineer (W2/Hybrid/NC)

Highbrow Technology Inc; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Highbrow Technology Inc. seeks an Infrastructure Automation Engineer to lead automation for provisioning, build and deployment activities for NC FAST applications. You will ensure consistent and reliable deployments across environments, enhancing CI/CD workflows with AWS, Ansible, and IaC practices.

The role requires Linux expertise, experience with Ansible Tower/AWX, Docker, Kubernetes, and scripting. On-call duties evenings/weekends may apply to meet business needs.

Qualifications

• Experience automating Linux OS patching and upgrades across multiple environments using automation tools like Ansible.
• Hands on experience with Git/GitHub or Bitbucket as source code management.
• Automating build/deploy processes including database changes using Ansible.
• Experience developing automation scripts and workflows using Python/Bash/Shell.
• Containerize with Docker and manage workloads with Kubernetes.
• Provisioning, configuring and managing environments with Terraform and Ansible.
• Developing and managing CI/CD pipelines with TeamCity, Jenkins, and Ansible.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead automation efforts for infrastructure provisioning, build and deploy activities for NC FAST applications.
• Ensure consistent, reliable deployments across environments and improve CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborate with DevOps and application teams to optimize release processes and tooling.
• Troubleshoot automation issues and maintain Ansible playbooks and related scripts.
• Be on call for evenings and weekends to meet business needs.

Skills

Automation scripting

CI/CD expertise

Linux administration

Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

IaC principles

Collaboration with DevOps

Tools

Ansible

Ansible Tower/AWX

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Jenkins

TeamCity

Git / Bitbucket

YAML

Python/Bash/Shell scripting

Job description

Role: Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Employment Type: W2

The primary role is to lead Automation effort of infrastructure provisioning, build and deploy activities for NC FAST applications. This position must demonstrate a solid understanding of AWS infrastructure and software release life cycle.

The role involves creating and maintaining Ansible playbooks, troubleshooting automation issues, ensuring consistent and reliable deployments across environments, and collaborating with DevOps and application teams to enhance CI/CD workflows. Strong knowledge of Linux, Ansible Tower/AWX, YAML, automation best practices, and infrastructure-as-code principles is required. Experience with debugging deployments, validating configurations, and improving release reliability is aplus.

The position will work with IT management to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuous integration and Continuous deployment (CI/CD) of application changes. This position will interact with the architects, developers, deployment Team, and Database Administrators to ensure automation of various tasks.

This position is required to be on call for evenings and weekends as required to meet business needs.

Skills Required / Desired

• Experience with automating Linux OS and software patches and upgrades across multiple environments using automations tools like Ansible
• Hands on Experience (like branching, merging, configuring, and administering) with BitBucket or GIT Source Code Management tool
• Hands on experience in Automating build/deploy process including changes to database using tools like Ansible
• Experience developing automation scripts, operational utilities, and workflow scripts using Python/Bash/Shell
• Experience building and packaging applications with Docker, and managing and scaling containerized workloads using Kubernetes
• Experience in infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and environment management using Terraform and Ansible
• Hands on experience developing and managing CI/CD (DevOps) pipeline using tools like Teamcity, Jenkins, Ansible
• Strong knowledge and understanding of Amazon web Services and infrastructure