Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Linux-based infrastructure automation)

U.S. Bank; Hopkins (MN); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k)

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick and Safe Leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to maintain and evolve large-scale platforms across on‑prem and cloud environments.

You will lead automation initiatives, design scalable systems, and guide incident response in a 24/7 production setting. The role requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, 6–8 years of relevant experience, and strong scripting (Python/Go/Shell) along with expertise in Linux, security, and modern orchestration tools such as Autosys and Airflow in

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Six to eight years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience leading infrastructure automation across on-prem and cloud environments.

Skills

Infrastructure automation

Linux production

Python/Go/Shell

AWS

Azure

Autosys

Airflow

DevOps

Security

Observability/containers

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Autosys

Airflow

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

Responsible for the maintenance of installed infrastructure technologies as well as the installation and configuration of these technologies within a specific area. This may include infrastructure as code, programming, scripting languages, multi-cloud environments, system engineering and software development. Develops design and functional specifications, produces deliverables related to specific projects and assists in post implementation support and system enhancements which may include platforms and systems such as Azure, AWS, CSP, API, microservices. Responsible for creating on-prem and public cloud systems for communication, sharing, storage and backup of data, including big-data analysis. This role may provision, manage, monitor, and decommission cloud services, including automating provisioning and management of infrastructure in a distributed environment through scripting. May be involved with the configuration and maintenance of physical and logical network components.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Six to eight years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Proven experience leading and advancing infrastructure automation strategy, driving scalable and repeatable platform management across on‑prem and cloud environments, and identifying high-value opportunities to reduce operational toil and improve system reliability.

• Demonstrated expertise in managing and optimizing Linux-based production infrastructure, providing technical leadership and engineering oversight for system health, patching, performance, and stability, while ensuring platform dependencies such as databases and data integrations are well understood and consistently supported across the team.

• Strong scripting and development background (Python, Go, and/or Shell), with the ability to establish coding standards, review and elevate team deliverables, and guide development of reusable automation, integrations, and orchestration logic.

• Deep understanding of workflow orchestration and enterprise job scheduling, with experience designing, reviewing, and evolving complex workflows, and providing technical leadership in modernizing orchestration platforms (e.g., leading migration from legacy schedulers to modern orchestrators), including Autosys, Airflow, et al.

• Proven technical leadership in a 24×7 production environment, including incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement, with the ability to guide teams through major incidents and drive systemic resolution across platforms.

• Working knowledge of modern DevOps and cloud practices (containers, CI/CD, observability, AWS/Azure), with the ability to influence architectural direction, promote Infrastructure-as-Code practices, and lead the transition toward cloud-native platform engineering models.

• Demonstrated commitment to security and vulnerability management, including proactively identifying risks, guiding remediation efforts, and ensuring security considerations are embedded into platform design, automation practices, and operational processes.

Location expectations
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to ourdisability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That’s why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about theE-Verify program.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $133,365.00 - $156,900.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.