Senior Enterprise Automation Engineer (Hybrid)

Yale University; New Haven (CT); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Yale Benefits

Job summary

Yale University is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to lead the design and evolution of the Foundation Technology Services automation platform. You will mentor teams and define patterns for IaC, configuration management, and GitOps across compute, networking, storage, and security domains.

The role requires expertise in Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and observability with Datadog, with a focus on scalable, secure automation architectures in a hybrid New Haven environment.

Qualifications

• Experience designing automation for complex enterprise infrastructure.
• Hands-on with Terraform IaC and modules.
• Experience with Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform.
• Networking, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and monitoring with Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Design, analyze, code, test, and maintain complex enterprise systems.
• Define project scope and objectives for major software systems.
• Mentor engineers in IaC, automation, CI/CD, and OpenShift.
• Review architecture and drive improvements in maintainability, scalability, security.

Skills

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Datadog

CI/CD

Networking basics

Tools

Ansible Automation Platform

OpenShift

Datadog

Job description

Yale University is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to lead the design and evolution of the Foundation Technology Services automation platform. You will mentor teams and define patterns for IaC, configuration management, and GitOps across compute, networking, storage, and security domains.

The role requires expertise in Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and observability with Datadog, with a focus on scalable, secure automation architectures in a hybrid New Haven environment.