Staff Infra Automation Engineer — Terraform & IaC

Early Warning®; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Maven Family Planning

Job summary

Early Warning in Phoenix, AZ offers a Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure Automation role focused on designing and building infrastructure-as-code capabilities used to provision and manage cloud and on-prem environments. You will work across Terraform, Ansible, and related tooling to enable secure, reliable infrastructure changes.

The role requires deep experience with Terraform modules, AWS security concepts, and Kubernetes, with collaboration across Cloud, Platform, Security, and CI/CD

Qualifications

• Strong production programming experience in Python, Go, or a comparable general-purpose language used to build infrastructure tooling, services, controllers, or automation.
• Demonstrated experience developing and operating software, infrastructure tooling, or platform capabilities relied upon by other engineers, including testing, code review, versioning, and operational ownership.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, including reusable module development, composition, automated testing, registry publishing, versioning, state management, and infrastructure change workflows.
• Experience with Ansible beyond basic playbooks, such as reusable roles or collections, execution environments, automated testing, linting, or Ansible Automation Platform/AWX.
• Experience implementing policy-as-code or infrastructure policy controls using OPA/Rego or comparable technologies.
• Strong knowledge of AWS infrastructure and security concepts, including IAM, networking, encryption, credential management, and secure configuration.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized infrastructure sufficient to implement infrastructure and admission-control requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop opinionated Terraform modules for AWS services and common service patterns that incorporate security, compliance, observability, encryption, logging, tagging, network placement, and IAM controls by default.
• Develop configuration-as-code capabilities for network infrastructure, including structured configuration generation, controlled changes and rollback, pre-change validation, post-change verification, compliance checks, and drift detection.
• Author, test, version, and maintain policy-as-code used to evaluate Terraform plans, Ansible configuration and execution, and Kubernetes admission controls.
• Lead engineering and operating practices for Terraform or Terraform Enterprise, including workspaces, run tasks, policy sets, state governance, drift detection, and plan/apply controls.
• Prototype and de-risk complex infrastructure automation and policy problems; mentor engineers and improve design, implementation, testing, and code-review practices across the organization.
• Partner with Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to map infrastructure automation controls to applicable requirements, including PCI DSS, SOX ITGC, NYDFS Part 500, and FFIEC expectations.

Skills

Python

Go

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Terratest

tflint

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Early Warning in Phoenix, AZ offers a Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure Automation role focused on designing and building infrastructure-as-code capabilities used to provision and manage cloud and on-prem environments. You will work across Terraform, Ansible, and related tooling to enable secure, reliable infrastructure changes.

The role requires deep experience with Terraform modules, AWS security concepts, and Kubernetes, with collaboration across Cloud, Platform, Security, and CI/CD