Senior Automation Engineer - AI-Driven DevOps & Platform

Koch; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible spending and health savings

Life insurance

Retirement

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

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

The role partners with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations to translate business needs into practical automation capabilities. The position emphasizes modernization, repeatable engineering patterns, tooling evaluation, and mentoring colleagues through coaching and demonstrating best practices in DevOps,

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and supporting automation, DevOps, cloud, or platform engineering solutions in complex enterprise environments.

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

Automation engineering

Python

PowerShell

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Git

Cloud experience

AI / Copilot

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering

Tools

Terraform

Git

Azure DevOps

GitHub

GitLab

Kubernetes

Job description

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

The role partners with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations to translate business needs into practical automation capabilities. The position emphasizes modernization, repeatable engineering patterns, tooling evaluation, and mentoring colleagues through coaching and demonstrating best practices in DevOps,