Sr. Cloud Automation Engineer

AE Business Solutions; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

AE Business Solutions seeks a hands-on Senior Cloud Automation Engineer for a 6+ month contract in Milwaukee. The role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days onsite weekly, and focuses on learning current processes, reducing siloed automation, and aligning practices with the cloud team.

You will work with the existing automation resource to cross-train and improve standardization, while enabling broader team training and smoother workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on infrastructure automation experience.
• Experience in infrastructure-automation environments, not purely architectural.
• Proficiency with Ansible, Terraform and GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tools.
• Strong PowerShell scripting and Windows/Linux administration background.
• Ability to document processes, train others and standardize practices across teams.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on cloud automation engineering within a hybrid infra environment.
• Collaborate with automation and cloud teams to reduce siloed practices.
• Develop and optimize automated provisioning, configuration, and decommissioning tasks.
• Document processes and train broader teams for standardized automation workflows.

Skills

Automation engineering

Hybrid infrastructure

Documentation & training

Windows administration

Linux administration

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

CI/CD workflows

Job description

Title: Senior Cloud Automation Engineer

Location: Hybrid— 2-3 days onsite per week in Milwaukee, WI

Duration: 6+ months (extensions and/or conversion possible)

About the position

Seeking a hands-on Cloud Automation Engineer for an initial 6-month contract. This person will work closely with their existing automation resource and cloud team to learn current processes, reduce siloed automation practices, improve internal automation workflows, and help train the broader team. The role is intended to work alongside their current automation resource, cross-train on their internal processes, align automation practices more closely with the cloud team, and eventually help train the broader team.

Required Skills/Qualifications (5+ years of experience with the following)

• Automation engineering experience—not a pure cloud architect or DevOps position
• Experience working in an infrastructure-automation environment
• Ansible
• Terraform
• GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD workflow tool
• PowerShell
• Solid Windows Server and Linux administration background
• Experience automating provisioning, configuration management, decommissioning, or server lifecycle tasks
• Experience working across hybrid infrastructure environments, not just public cloud-native environments
• Ability to document processes, train others, and improve standardization across teams