Infrastructure Automation Engineering Manager

Crump Life Insurance Svcs Inc; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Truist Financial Corporation is seeking an Infrastructure Automation Engineering Manager to lead a team delivering production-grade automation in a regulated environment. You will guide engineers, review designs, and ensure reliable, compliant software across on-premises and cloud contexts.

The role emphasizes a growth mindset, learning culture, and hands-on leadership to accelerate delivery while managing risk and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience with leadership responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Manages and directs a software engineering team delivering high-quality, scalable solutions.
• Plans, prioritizes, and allocates resources to meet goals and deadlines.
• Enforces software engineering standards and governance for quality and compliance.
• Collaborates with architecture, analytics, and security to deliver integrated tech.
• Oversees design, development, testing, and maintenance of applications.
• Mentors team members to enhance skills and career growth.
• Reviews designs, code, and documentation to ensure standards are met.
• Identifies and mitigates risks related to development and delivery.
• Drives continuous improvement in processes, tools, and methodologies.
• Communicates progress and achievements to senior management.

Skills

People leadership

Software engineering

Agile delivery

Terraform

Ansible

Python

PowerShell

Git workflows

CI/CD

Cloud

On-prem

Policy-as-code

Secrets management

ServiceNow ITOM

AI governance

Senior IC

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

PowerShell

Git

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Backstage

vSphere/ESXi

Cloud platforms

Job description

Role Summary

The Infrastructure Automation Engineering Manager is a player-coach people leader who builds, leads, and grows a team of automation engineers delivering production-grade infrastructure automation in a regulated financial services environment. The role carries two accountabilities at once: the health, growth, and performance of the engineers on the team, and the reliability of what the team ships across on-premises environments. This manager stays close enough to the work to review a design, question an approach, and unblock an engineer. Teams may be responsible for infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, orchestration workflows, self-service platform services, automated testing, policy-as-code controls, compliance automation, operational governance, and engineering reliability initiatives. The manager is accountable for building a high-performing engineering team, ensuring delivery excellence, maintaining engineering standards, and enabling the adoption of scalable automation solutions that improve operational efficiency, resiliency, and risk management across on-premises environments. Equally important to management craft is an orientation toward continuous learning and adaptive thinking. This role demands a high curiosity quotient and a non-negotiable growth mindset: the manager actively seeks feedback, owns their development gaps, and builds a team culture where questions are asked early, incidents are learned from without blame, and complexity is treated as an invitation rather than a barrier. A manager sets the learning culture their engineers inherit, and this role is expected to model it visibly.

Regular or Temporary: Regular Language Fluency: English (Required) Work Shift: 1st shift (United States of America).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Manages and directs a software engineering team, overseeing day-to-day operations and ensuring delivery of high-quality, scalable software solutions.
2. Plans, prioritizes, and allocates resources to meet short-term operational goals and project deadlines within the software engineering area.
3. Develops and enforces software engineering standards, best practices, and governance to maintain code quality and compliance.
4. Collaborates with cross-functional teams including architecture, analytics, and security to deliver integrated technology solutions.
5. Oversees the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software applications that meet business and user needs.
6. Mentors and coaches team members to enhance technical skills, career growth, and performance.
7. Reviews and approves technical designs, code, and documentation to ensure adherence to standards and project requirements.
8. Identify and mitigates risks related to software development and delivery, ensuring reliable and secure solutions.
9. Drives continuous improvement initiatives in engineering processes, tools, and methodologies.
10. Communicates team progress, challenges, and achievements to senior management and stakeholders.

Qualifications Required

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
2. A minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including team leadership or supervisory responsibilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering in a regulated industry (financial services, healthcare, insurance, or equivalent) where change control, audit trails, and examination readiness constrain how software ships
• Experience leading or working daily with globally distributed engineering teams across time zones
• Hiring and performance management fundamentals: structured interviewing, calibrated feedback, development planning, and the willingness to make hard calls on performance
• Agile delivery management: sprint planning, backlog hygiene, and flow metrics (cycle time, change failure rate, time to recover) used as improvement tools rather than scorecards
• Written communication strong enough to run an engineering team across time zones: decisions, handoffs, and status that hold up without a meeting
• Hands-on background in the team’s core stack, current enough to review work credibly: Terraform and Ansible, Python or PowerShell scripting, Git-based workflows, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps)
• Working knowledge of hybrid infrastructure: at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) plus on-premises virtualization (vSphere/ESXi, Nutanix AHV, or Hyper-V)
• Working understanding of policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper, Sentinel, Kyverno) and secrets management (Vault or cloud-native equivalents), and why both are engineering disciplines rather than after-the-fact compliance gates
• Familiarity with orchestration and ITSM integration (ServiceNow ITOM, event-driven automation, CMDB) sufficient to manage delivery against them
• Working understanding of how LLM-assisted and agentic automation behaves in production: failure modes, evaluation, cost profiles, and the guardrails that keep agent-initiated changes safe
• Experience managing, or shipping as a senior IC, at least one AI-assisted capability through to production, including the operational questions that prototypes do not reveal
• Fluency with AI governance concepts (NIST AI RMF, model risk management basics) sufficient to manage compliance-ready delivery without owning the risk framework
• Experience standing up or scaling a team in a Global Capability Center or offshore engineering hub, including the early mechanics of onboarding, knowledge transfer, and earning delivery trust
• Prior Lead- or Staff-level individual contributor experience in automation or platform engineering
• Experience delivering an internal developer platform or self-service portal (Backstage or equivalent), treating internal engineers as customers of the platform
• Experience with NIST CSF 2.0 or the FFIEC IT Examination Handbooks as working constraints on delivery
• AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or HashiCorp certifications; formal management or leadership training
• Experience partnering in a product operating model

The annual base salary for this position for the State of Virginia is $125K-$169K.

General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation

All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position.

• medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan
• 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays
• Defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan

Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law.

Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.

EEO is the Law E-Verify IER Right to Work.

Truist is a purpose-driven financial services company, formed by the historic merger of BB&T and SunTrust. We serve clients in a number of high-growth markets in the country, offering a wide range of financial services. At Truist, our purpose is to inspire and build better lives and communities. That happens through real care to make things better. To meet client needs, to empower teammates, and to lift up communities. Learn more about Truist on truist.com.