Sr. Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Truist; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Disability

AD&D

Tax-advantaged savings accounts

401k plan

Vacation 10 days (first year)

10 sick days

Paid holidays

Pension plan (defined benefit)

RSUs

Deferred compensation plan

Job summary

Truist is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and manage enterprise infrastructure across cloud, network, storage, databases, and middleware. This role emphasizes automation, observability, and scalable platforms, delivering reliable, secure operations while aligning with enterprise standards.

The engineer will drive repeatable patterns, collaborate across teams, and contribute to governance, security, and delivery tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training and work experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering.
• Advanced knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies including cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, and middleware.

Responsibilities

• Works to achieve operational targets with major impact on the infrastructure engineering department or job area results and contributes to the development of goals for area of responsibility.
• Designs, builds, manages, and implements enterprise infrastructure technology platforms and systems across cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, or middleware domains.
• Develops and applies automation, monitoring, and optimization techniques to ensure high availability and performance of infrastructure.
• Manages large infrastructure projects and programs aligned with organizational strategy and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams and external partners to integrate new technologies and continuously improve infrastructure standards and processes.
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex technical issues impacting infrastructure performance and reliability.
• Ensures compliance with technology strategies, standards, and governance to mitigate risks and ensure regulatory adherence.
• Reviews infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures to support operational consistency and knowledge sharing.
• Provides strong technical guidance, training, and direction to infrastructure teams and lower-level technical professionals.
• Demonstrates innovative influence with stakeholders in supporting business objectives and technical strategic objectives.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Cloud technologies

Networking

Databases

Storage systems

Automation

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Observability

Security & governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Equivalent education, training, and work-related experience

Job description

Regular or Temporary:

Regular

Language Fluency: English (Required)

Work Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Please review the following job description:

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer designs, builds, manages, and implements enterprise infrastructure technologies that enable scalable, secure, reliable, and increasingly automated business operations. This role applies deep technical judgment and modern software engineering practices to improve how infrastructure capabilities are delivered, integrated, governed, and sustained across the enterprise.

This is an opportunity to join at the ground floor of an evolving infrastructure automation capability and help shape the engineering practices, reusable patterns, and platform foundations that will define its future. The engineer will work across traditional infrastructure boundaries, contribute to production-grade automation and integration, and help turn complex operational needs into repeatable, supportable capabilities. Success requires curiosity, a growth mindset, disciplined engineering, and a willingness to challenge manual or fragmented approaches while working within enterprise standards and controls.

Job Description

For this opportunity, Truist will not sponsor an applicant for work visa status or employment authorization, nor will we offer any immigration-related support for this position (including, but not limited to H-1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN-1 or TN-2, E-3, O-1, or future sponsorship for U.S. lawful permanent residence status.)

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Works to achieve operational targets with major impact on the infrastructure engineering department or job area results and contributes to the development of goals for area of responsibility.
2. Designs, builds, manages, and implements enterprise infrastructure technology platforms and systems across cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, or middleware domains.
3. Develops and applies automation, monitoring, and optimization techniques to ensure high availability and performance of infrastructure.
4. Manages large infrastructure projects and programs aligned with organizational strategy and regulatory requirements.
5. Collaborates with cross-functional teams and external partners to integrate new technologies and continuously improve infrastructure standards and processes.
6. Troubleshoots and resolves complex technical issues impacting infrastructure performance and reliability.
7. Ensures compliance with technology strategies, standards, and governance to mitigate risks and ensure regulatory adherence.
8. Reviews infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures to support operational consistency and knowledge sharing.
9. Provides strong technical guidance, training, and direction to infrastructure teams and lower-level technical professionals.
10. Demonstrates innovative influence with stakeholders in supporting business objectives and technical strategic objectives.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, a related field, or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
2. Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering.
3. Advanced knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies including cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, and middleware.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Master’s degree in a relevant technical discipline.
2. Experience in the financial services industry or another highly regulated environment.
3. Experience applying software engineering practices to infrastructure, including version control, automated testing, reusable design patterns, and CI/CD delivery.
4. Experience with infrastructure as code, configuration management, orchestration, API integration, and event-driven automation concepts.
5. Experience integrating infrastructure capabilities across service management, configuration or asset data, observability, security, and delivery toolchains.
6. Working knowledge of secure engineering, policy-as-code, secrets management, auditability, and automated control evidence within infrastructure delivery.
7. Experience designing or operating reliable, production-grade infrastructure capabilities with attention to observability, resilience, maintainability, and lifecycle ownership.
8. Ability to independently deliver complex infrastructure solutions while contributing to shared standards, reusable patterns, technical documentation, and architecture decisions.
9. Demonstrated curiosity and growth mindset, including the ability to learn emerging practices, seek feedback, share knowledge, and treat ambiguity as an engineering opportunity.
10. Experience reviewing technical work, mentoring less-experienced engineers, and explaining the reasoning behind engineering decisions.
11. Awareness of how AI-assisted engineering and intelligent automation can be applied responsibly within governed enterprise platforms.
12. Relevant industry certifications in cloud, infrastructure, automation, security, reliability, or architecture.

General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation:

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• disability
• accidental death and dismemberment
• tax-preferred savings accounts
• 401k plan
• no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment
• 10 sick days (also prorated)
• paid holidays
• Truist’s defined benefit pension plan
• restricted stock units
• deferred compensation plan

Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law. Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.

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