Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer (Ansible)

Usbank; Hopkins (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation

Disability leave

Holiday opportunities

Adoption assistance

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a seasoned Infra/Automation Engineer to design and govern IaC and configuration management across hybrid environments.

You will develop Ansible playbooks, Salt states, and other automation artifacts to enforce standards and reduce drift, while aligning with CI/CD practices and cloud resources. Focusing on scalability, compliance, and business continuity, you’ll lead automation initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate with security and platform teams to integrate IaC

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Five to six years of relevant experience.
• Strong expertise in Configuration Management platforms such as Ansible Automation Platform (preferred), Salt, Chef, or Puppet.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing IaC solutions within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure automation, configuration drift management, system compliance, and desired-state configuration principles.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and govern enterprise-wide Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and Configuration Management frameworks to ensure secure, consistent, and repeatable infrastructure deployments.
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks, Salt states, and other automation artifacts to manage configuration drift, enforce standards, and improve operational efficiency.
• Define and manage the desired state of servers, virtual machines, containers, cloud resources, and platform services across hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Architect and evolve Configuration Management strategies, standards, and governance models that support scalability, compliance, and business continuity requirements.
• Build scalable, idempotent, and auditable automation pipelines for infrastructure provisioning, configuration deployment, patch management, and compliance enforcement.
• Collaborate with cloud, platform, security, and engineering teams to integrate Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration Management practices into enterprise DevOps and CI/CD workflows.
• Establish automated compliance controls, configuration validation processes, and reporting capabilities to support security, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Troubleshoot and optimize configuration management platforms, provide technical leadership on automation best practices, and mentor engineers on Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies.

Education

Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience

Tools

Ansible Automation Platform (preferred)

Salt

Chef

Puppet

Linux

Windows Server

Git

Python

YAML

PowerShell

Bash

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a seasoned Infra/Automation Engineer to design and govern IaC and configuration management across hybrid environments.

You will develop Ansible playbooks, Salt states, and other automation artifacts to enforce standards and reduce drift, while aligning with CI/CD practices and cloud resources. Focusing on scalability, compliance, and business continuity, you’ll lead automation initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate with security and platform teams to integrate IaC