Senior Automation Engineer - AI-Driven Platform & DevOps

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

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.