Senior Automation Engineer

Koch; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

FSA/Health Savings

Life Insurance

ADD

AD&D

Retirement

Paid Time Off

Educational Assistance

Infertility Assistance

Paid Parental Leave

Adoption Assistance

Job summary

Koch is seeking a Sr. Automation Engineer to create reusable automation capabilities, enable platform engineering, and drive operational efficiency across IT Employee Services.

The role aims to reduce manual effort, improve reliability, accelerate delivery, and leverage AI. This position partners with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to translate business needs into practical platform and automation capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experienced in designing, building, and supporting automation, DevOps, cloud, or platform engineering solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Proficient in Python, PowerShell, APIs, workflow orchestration, and other automation technologies, with a focus on reducing manual effort and improving efficiency.
• Experience developing and supporting CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and modern deployment practices using Terraform, Git, GitLab, Azure DevOps, GitHub, or similar tools.
• Proven ability to analyze operational processes, service demand, telemetry, and support trends to identify opportunities for automation, reliability improvements, self-service, and ticket reduction.
• Curiosity for emerging technologies such as AI, Copilot, intelligent agents, and event-driven automation, with a passion for applying innovative solutions to business and operational challenges.
• Ability to partner across technical and business teams, mentor others, challenge the status quo, and drive continuous improvement through an automation-first mindset.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target-state DevOps and automation architecture, including CI/CD patterns, infrastructure as code standards, environment strategies, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Design, build, and maintain automations that eliminate manual work across Collaboration Technology and Endpoint teams.
• Leverage AI, Copilot, intelligent agents, APIs, and event-driven architectures to create self-service capabilities, automate business processes, improve decision-making, and advance automation-first ways of working
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, and product stakeholders to prioritize modernization opportunities and align technical solutions to business outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship by guiding design decisions, reviewing patterns and implementations, and coaching teams on DevOps, automation, and engineering best practices.
• Analyze operational data, incidents, service requests, and platform telemetry to identify automation opportunities, reduce recurring support demand, improve service reliability, and drive continuous operational excellence.

Skills

Python

PowerShell

APIs

Workflow orchestration

Automation technologies

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Git

GitLab

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Terraform

Git

GitLab

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Job description

Your Job

The Sr. Automation Engineer is responsible for creating reusable automation capabilities, enabling platform engineering, and driving operational efficiency across IT Employee Services. This role creates business value through automation by reducing manual effort, improving reliability, accelerating delivery and leveraging AI.

The Sr. Automation Engineer is responsible for creating reusable automation capabilities, enabling platform engineering, and driving operational efficiency across IT Employee Services. This role creates business value through automation by reducing manual effort, improving reliability, accelerating delivery and leveraging AI.

This role partners closely with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to translate business needs into practical platform and automation capabilities. The Sr. Automation Engineer is expected to drive modernization, establish repeatable engineering patterns, evaluate tooling and design choices, and mentor technical contributors through coaching and demonstrating.

Our Team

The IT Employee Services Organization provides value-added strategic partnerships with other Koch companies in ownership and support of several key processes and platforms. We deliver IT products and services that enable employee success and collaboration, foundational accounts and devices, and transformational mobility and XR experiences. As a trusted partner, we focus on people, processes, technology, and data to drive transformation. Our team members are key contributors through the application of frameworks and principles with an emphasis on leveraging critical and economic thinking to drive value.

Location: This role can be located in Wichita, KS / Plano, TX / Atlanta, GA and requires an in-office presence with flexibility.

This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship.

What You Will Do

• Define and maintain the target-state DevOps and automation architecture, including CI/CD patterns, infrastructure as code standards, environment strategies, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Design, build, and maintain automations that eliminate manual work across Collaboration Technology and Endpoint teams.
• Leverage AI, Copilot, intelligent agents, APIs, and event-driven architectures to create self-service capabilities, automate business processes, improve decision-making, and advance automation-first ways of working
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, and product stakeholders to prioritize modernization opportunities and align technical solutions to business outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship by guiding design decisions, reviewing patterns and implementations, and coaching teams on DevOps, automation, and engineering best practices.
• Analyze operational data, incidents, service requests, and platform telemetry to identify automation opportunities, reduce recurring support demand, improve service reliability, and drive continuous operational excellence.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and supporting automation, DevOps, cloud, or platform engineering solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, APIs, workflow orchestration, and other automation technologies, with a focus on reducing manual effort and improving efficiency.
• Experience developing and supporting CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and modern deployment practices using Terraform, Git, GitLab, Azure DevOps, GitHub, or similar tools.
• Proven ability to analyze operational processes, service demand, telemetry, and support trends to identify opportunities for automation, reliability improvements, self-service, and ticket reduction.
• Curiosity for emerging technologies such as AI, Copilot, intelligent agents, and event-driven automation, with a passion for applying innovative solutions to business and operational challenges.
• Ability to partner across technical and business teams, mentor others, challenge the status quo, and drive continuous improvement through an automation-first mindset.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience with enterprise automation tooling, cloud platforms, observability solutions, and infrastructure orchestration frameworks.
• Background in DevOps architecture, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or large-scale operational transformation initiatives.
• Relevant certifications or advanced experience in cloud architecture, Kubernetes, automation, or secure software delivery practices.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance

Our benefits plan includes ... Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.