Senior Infrastructure Engineer - AI-Driven Cloud & Automation

The Hartford; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hartford is seeking a Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, secure, and modernize enterprise infrastructure across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. You will drive automation, IaC, observability, and resiliency while partnering with security, architecture, and operations teams to deliver stable and cost-aware services.

We expect 8–10 years in software engineering, deep cloud and container know-how, and hands-on AI tool experience.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of applicable software engineering experience.
• Expert proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (Java, C#/.NET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Strong full-stack expertise (front end frameworks, APIs, back-end services).
• Deep experience with automated testing, CI/CD, and AIOps practices.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containers, and distributed systems.
• Advanced understanding of secure coding, vulnerability remediation, and data protection.
• Proven experience with agentic AI architectures, LLM prompting, and human-AI interaction design.
• Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity.
• Strong awareness of AI-driven security risks and responsible AI practices.

Responsibilities

• Owns the technical direction, design integrity, and operational outcomes for complex infrastructure capabilities across platforms, services, teams, or tech domains as a senior individual contributor.
• Leads cross-functional squads or workstreams across Infrastructure, Security, and Architecture to deliver enterprise-critical outcomes.
• Serves as a subject matter expert across infrastructure domains, shaping platform direction, engineering standards, and reusable patterns.
• Defines and advances scalable infrastructure platforms, automation, observability, resiliency, and operational controls across hybrid environments.
• Owns design choices for AI-enabled or agentic infrastructure where requirements are broad or cross-domain trade-offs are needed.
• Modernizes infrastructure services, automation, configurations, runbooks, deployment patterns, and workflows for scalability and cost efficiency.
• Establishes reusable playbooks and documentation standards to enable safe, consistent engineering execution.

Skills

Java

C#/.NET

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Full-stack APIs

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD

AI/LLM prompting

Agentic AI

Tools

AI tools

Job description

The Hartford is seeking a Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, secure, and modernize enterprise infrastructure across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. You will drive automation, IaC, observability, and resiliency while partnering with security, architecture, and operations teams to deliver stable and cost-aware services.

We expect 8–10 years in software engineering, deep cloud and container know-how, and hands-on AI tool experience.