Sr. Infrastructure Engineer – Platform Automation

U.S. Bank; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Life insurance (basic term)

Disability insurance (short/long term)

Parental leave

401(k) and employer retirement plan

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a seasoned infrastructure engineer to maintain installed technologies, develop specifications, and support cloud/on‑prem systems.

You will automate provisioning and management across multi‑cloud environments, contributing to scalable, secure API and middleware workloads. The role requires strong scripting, Ansible and Terraform expertise, plus experience with Windows and Linux environments, CI/CD, and networking for latency‑sensitive services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Five to six years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain installed infrastructure technologies and configure them within a specific area.
• Develop design and functional specifications, deliverables for projects, and support post-implementation enhancements.
• Provision, manage, monitor, and decommission cloud services, including scripting for automation.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

Cloud infrastructure

Automation tooling

Networking concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Git

AWS

Azure

Job description

About U.S. Bank

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever‑growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Responsibilities

Responsible for the maintenance of installed infrastructure technologies as well as the installation and configuration of these technologies within a specific area. This may include infrastructure as code, programming, scripting languages, multi‑cloud environments, system engineering and software development. Develops design and functional specifications, produces deliverables related to specific projects and assists in post implementation support and system enhancements which may include platforms and systems such as Azure, AWS, CSP, API, microservices. Responsible for creating on‑prem and public cloud systems for communication, sharing, storage and backup of data, including big‑data analysis. This role may provision, manage, monitor, and decommission cloud services, including automating provisioning and management of infrastructure in a distributed environment through scripting. May be involved with the configuration and maintenance of physical and logical network components.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Five to six years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills / Experience

• Python (required): hands‑on experience developing automation, tooling, or platform services supporting API or middleware workloads.
• Ansible (required): proven experience building and maintaining roles/playbooks for middleware, API platforms, or supporting infrastructure.
• Strong experience with open source automation tools and infrastructure‑as‑code approaches (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Git‑based workflows).
• Proficient with Windows and Linux Operating System.
• Demonstrated experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines for middleware, APIs, or shared platforms.
• Hands‑on experience supporting virtualized, cloud, and containerized infrastructure, particularly for always‑on, latency‑sensitive API workloads.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts relevant to APIs and middleware, such as load balancing, ingress/egress, TLS, and service‑to‑service communication.

Location Expectations

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short‑term and long‑term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer‑funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

Equal Opportunity

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E‑Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E‑Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E‑Verify program is an Internet‑based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E‑Verify program.

Pay Range

Pay Range: $119,765.00 - $140,900.00

Background and Eligibility Checks

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures. Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Additional Information

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever‑growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.