Manager, Cloud Automation Engineering

Voya Financial; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Voya Financial is seeking a Director of Cloud Automation Engineering to architect and lead secure, auditable automation across cloud platforms. You will own CI/CD pipelines, GitOps strategies, and governance practices while growing a high-performing team.

You will collaborate with security, compliance, and audit stakeholders to map controls and ensure production-grade automation across Azure, AWS, and OCI. This is a hands-on leadership role rooted in engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years in infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering with IaC expertise.
• Experience building secure, auditable cloud automation pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build Terraform and Ansible/AAP pipelines across Azure, AWS, and OCI.
• Design GitOps delivery via ArgoCD/OpenShift GitOps with gated promotion.
• Define reference architectures and enforce CI/CD standards across repos.
• Lead cloud automation team and mentor engineers.
• Partner with security, compliance, and audit stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architecture

Security governance

Collaboration

Auditing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible/AAP

ArgoCD

OpenShift GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Together we fight for everyone's opportunity for a better financial future. We will do this together - with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone's access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough ... we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today. Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with - and those we acquire throughout our lives - are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.

Director, Cloud Automation Engineering

Role Overview

Voya's Infrastructure Engineering organization is modernizing how cloud infrastructure gets built, changed, and governed across Azure, AWS, and OCI. Terraform and Ansible/AAP automation already run production workloads today - VM lifecycle and disaster-recovery failover, capacity management, and GitOps-driven application delivery - but much of that automation grew organically, without the version control, peer review, and audit trail that a regulated financial services environment requires. This role owns closing that gap: replacing ungoverned, direct-to-production automation patterns with a secure, auditable, and genuinely usable cloud automation platform.

Get to Know the Opportunity

As Director, Cloud Automation Engineering, you are a builder-operator hybrid: hands-on architect and contributor to the pipelines and platforms your team runs, and the people leader accountable for their delivery and growth. You will personally design and help build the CI/CD architecture for Terraform, Ansible/AAP, and GitOps (ArgoCD) - version-pinned artifact promotion, policy-as-code gates, and DTAP segregation - while also running forensic audits of the current estate to quantify risk and build the evidence base for remediation. You'll partner directly with security, compliance, and audit stakeholders to map every pipeline gate to a named control (SDLC-2, CP-054, CP-064, ITAM-3, SOC-12, Source Code Protection Standard), and you'll lead and grow a team of cloud/platform engineers who share that same builder mindset.

The Contributions You Make

Cloud Automation Architecture & Engineering

• Architect and personally build the Terraform (anchored on the shared-module repo) and Ansible/AAP pipelines spanning Azure, AWS, and OCI, replacing live branch-sync and direct-apply patterns with version-pinned, gated promotion.
• Design and implement GitOps delivery via ArgoCD/OpenShift GitOps, moving self-syncing application patterns onto a discrete build-and-gate stage.
• Define reference architectures, module/role standards, and reusable shared-module conventions - CI, CODEOWNERS, branch protection, semantic version tagging - enforced across every consumer repository.

SDLC Pipeline & Compliance Engineering

• Own end-to-end remediation of the Terraform uplift and Ansible greenfield rebuild: committer-limit enforcement, branch protection and peer review, version-pinned promotion across Dev/Test/Acceptance/Prod, and independent release-owner approval gates ahead of production.
• Build and mature the security tooling stack: static analysis and policy-as-code for Terraform (linting, cloud-config scanning, OPA) and for Ansible (lint, Molecule, container/CVE scanning), plus software composition analysis and secret scanning across the estate.
• Stand up SIEM and audit-trail coverage for Git activity, plan/apply and job-execution events, and secrets access - own the formal exception process where tooling choices deviate from the enterprise standard.
• Close artifact-provenance gaps: SBOM generation and signed-artifact publishing for every build that reaches production.

Governance, Audit & Risk Reduction

• Run forensic, evidence-based audits of live IaC estates - repository inventory, collaborator and committer counts, CI coverage, secrets hygiene, tag and version currency - to quantify governance gaps and build the business case for remediation or rebuild.
• Identify and close shadow-repo and personal-namespace automation risk; consolidate automation onto sanctioned, org-owned repositories.
• Partner with Change Management, Release Management, and the Change Advisory Board to map pipeline gates to formal change records, approval boards, and code-freeze/pre-production lockdown windows.

Cross-Platform Cloud Operations

• Own the automation supporting live production workloads across Azure, AWS, and OCI - VM lifecycle, disaster-recovery failover, and capacity management - ensuring changes flow through gated, auditable pipelines rather than console, SSH, or unreviewed branch-sync paths.
• Partner with automation-platform owners to move control-plane configuration (job templates, RBAC, credential scopes) to config-as-code with the same version-pinning discipline applied to application code.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Build, lead, and grow a team of cloud and platform engineers, balancing hands-on architecture and code contribution with people leadership - hiring, performance, and career development.
• Serve as the escalation point and technical authority for cloud automation architecture decisions; mentor engineers on secure pipeline design and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Represent cloud automation engineering in enterprise architecture, security, and compliance forums; translate technical risk and roadmap into terms senior technology and business stakeholders can act on.

Minimum Knowledge And Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years in infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering, with deep hands-on infrastructure-as-code