Remote Infrastructure Automation Architect

Ampcus, Inc; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus Inc. is seeking an Infrastructure Platform Automation Architect to lead automation across enterprise infrastructure in a hybrid cloud/on-prem environment.

You will define standards, architectures, and reusable patterns to reduce toil and improve reliability while partnering with platform owners, security, and ITSM teams. The role requires strong IaC, workflow orchestration, and governance experience, plus the ability to mentor engineers and drive measurable improvements.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing automation architectures for enterprise infrastructure (hybrid cloud and onprem).
• Strong proficiency in infrastructure-as-code and configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell/CLI automation).
• Workflow/orchestration design experience (e.g., Rundeck, AWX/Ansible Automation Platform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).
• Expertise integrating automation with ITSM (e.g., ServiceNow) including change enablement and CMDB alignment.
• Solid engineering practices: version control (Git), CI/CD for automation, testing approaches, and modular reusable code design.
• Experience with observability/monitoring integrations to trigger or validate remediation (metrics, alerts, logs, runbook automation).
• Strong understanding of security controls for automation (RBAC, secrets management, credential vaulting, audit logging).
• Ability to produce architecture documentation, runbooks, and standards; strong stakeholder communication and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise automation architecture, standards, and reusable frameworks for infrastructure platform operations.
• Design and implement endtoend automation workflows across hybrid infrastructure (provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance, remediation).
• Integrate automation with ITSM processes (incident, change, request, CMDB) and observability tooling for event-driven operations.
• Establish governance for automation content including code quality, peer review, testing, release management, documentation, and lifecycle ownership.
• Lead root cause and reliability reviews to identify toil and prioritize automation opportunities with clear ROI and operational impact.
• Partner with security and risk teams to embed identity, secrets management, least privilege, and auditability into automation solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to automation engineers and platform admins; develop patterns and accelerators to scale adoption.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to create roadmaps, success metrics, and operational KPIs; communicate progress to leadership.
• Evaluate and onboard automation and orchestration tooling; define integration patterns and reference implementations.

Skills

Automation architecture

Infrastructure as code

Configuration management

Workflow orchestration

ITSM integration

Security controls

CI/CD for automation

Observability integration

RBAC & secrets management

Architecture documentation

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

PowerShell/CLI automation

Rundeck

AWX/Ansible Automation Platform

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

ServiceNow

Job description

Ampcus Inc. is seeking an Infrastructure Platform Automation Architect to lead automation across enterprise infrastructure in a hybrid cloud/on-prem environment.

You will define standards, architectures, and reusable patterns to reduce toil and improve reliability while partnering with platform owners, security, and ITSM teams. The role requires strong IaC, workflow orchestration, and governance experience, plus the ability to mentor engineers and drive measurable improvements.