Senior Automation Engineer — AI-Driven DevOps & Platform

Koch; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The role emphasizes automation to reduce manual effort, improve reliability, and accelerate delivery, partnering with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams. The candidate will drive modernization, establish repeatable engineering patterns, evaluate tooling, and mentor contributors through coaching and demonstrations of

Qualifications

• 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.

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

CI/CD

IaC

Terraform

Git

GitLab

Azure DevOps

GitHub

AI

Education

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

Tools

Git

Job description

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

The role emphasizes automation to reduce manual effort, improve reliability, and accelerate delivery, partnering with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams. The candidate will drive modernization, establish repeatable engineering patterns, evaluate tooling, and mentor contributors through coaching and demonstrations of