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Infrastructure Automation Engineer jobs are open across cloud, fintech, healthcare, and enterprise tech, from entry-level to staff and principal engineer, with specializations in CI/CD pipeline development, infrastructure-as-code, and platform reliability. Find a role that fits from the openings below and apply directly.
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The Infrastructure Automation Team is seeking an Infrastructure Automation Engineer to help design, develop, and support enterprise automation solutions that improve operational efficiency, reliability, security, and service delivery across the organization.
This role will partner closely with Server Operations, Network Operations, Application Services, Cybersecurity, Service Management, and Digital Engineering teams to automate infrastructure provisioning, operational processes, compliance activities, event driven remediation, and self service capabilities.
The ideal candidate has a strong infrastructure background in VMware, Windows Server, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, along with a passion for using automation to reduce manual effort, improve operational consistency, and accelerate service delivery. This position supports a vision of simplified, standardized, and automated solutions that enable secure, highly available, and scalable infrastructure services.Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain enterprise automation solutions using Ansible, Python, PowerShell, and related automation technologies.
- Design, develop, and support automation workflows for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, patching, compliance validation, application deployment, and operational support activities.
- Develop and support Event Driven Ansible solutions that automate operational tasks, incident response, and remediation activities.
- Automate administrative and operational processes across VMware, Windows Server, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
- Integrate automation solutions with enterprise platforms including ServiceNow, monitoring tools, application programming interfaces, web services, configuration management database platforms, and infrastructure management systems.
- Develop reusable automation frameworks, playbooks, roles, templates, and standards that improve consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Leverage modern development tools and AI assisted engineering capabilities to improve code quality, accelerate automation development, reduce technical debt, and increase engineering productivity.
- Participate in the development and support of continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines utilizing technologies such as Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and automated testing frameworks.
- Troubleshoot automation failures and collaborate with infrastructure teams to identify and resolve root causes.
- Participate in automation platform maintenance, upgrades, and lifecycle management activities.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, standards, and knowledge articles.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams using Agile methodologies to deliver automation solutions that improve business outcomes.
- Ensure automation solutions comply with cybersecurity, regulatory, audit, and corporate standards.
- Participate in incident response, problem management, and continuous improvement activities.
- Stay current on emerging automation and AI technologies and identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency. Qualifications:
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Three or more years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, infrastructure automation, DevOps, or related technical roles.
- Experience developing automation using Ansible Core, Open Source Ansible, or Ansible Automation Platform, including playbooks, roles, inventories, templates, and modules.
- Experience administering and supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
- Experience administering and supporting Windows Server environments.
- Experience working within VMware vSphere and vCenter environments.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python and PowerShell.
- Experience using Git based source control systems.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure administration, operating systems, networking, and security fundamentals.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem solving skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical teams.
Preferred
- Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
- Experience with Event Driven Ansible.
- Experience automating VMware administration using Ansible, PowerCLI, application programming interfaces, or related automation tools.
- Experience integrating automation solutions with ServiceNow or other information technology service management platforms.
- Experience developing integrations using REST application programming interfaces, webhooks, and scripting.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code concepts and tools such as Terraform.
- Experience with container technologies including Podman, Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds, Grafana, or similar tools.
- Experience using AI assisted development tools such as Kiro, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Amazon Q Developer, or similar technologies.
- Experience leveraging AI tools to improve software development productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and automation engineering workflows.
- Experience working in Agile product delivery environments.
- Relevant Red Hat, VMware, Microsoft, or automation certifications.
Additional Success Factors
- Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure concepts, including virtualization, operating systems, networking, and cybersecurity.
- Ability to identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency through automation.
- Ability to learn new technologies and apply them to solve business problems.
- Interest in emerging automation, AI, and platform engineering practices.
- Strong customer service skills and a commitment to delivering high quality solutions.
- Ability to build productive working relationships across technical and business teams.
- Effective communication skills with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team oriented environment.
- Passion for automation and operational excellence.
- Curiosity and willingness to continuously learn and adapt.
- Commitment to improving processes, reducing manual effort, and enhancing service reliability.
- Enthusiasm for leveraging AI and automation to solve operational challenges. Tools and Technologies:
- Ansible Core
- Open Source Ansible
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
- Event Driven Ansible
- Python
- PowerShell
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Windows Server
- VMware vSphere
- VMware vCenter
- PowerCLI
- Git
- GitHub
- Jenkins
- Azure DevOps
- ServiceNow
- REST application programming interfaces
- Webhooks
- Configuration management database platforms
- Terraform
- Podman
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- LogicMonitor
- SolarWinds
- Grafana
- Kiro
- Claude Code
- GitHub Copilot
- Cursor
Pay: $70.00 - $75.00 per hour
Experience:
- Ansible: 3 years (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in St. Louis, MO 63110
The Infrastructure Automation Team is seeking an Infrastructure Automation Engineer to help design, develop, and support enterprise automation solutions that improve operational efficiency, reliability, security, and service delivery across the organization.
This role will partner closely with Server Operations, Network Operations, Application Services, Cybersecurity, Service Management, and Digital Engineering teams to automate infrastructure provisioning, operational processes, compliance activities, event driven remediation, and self service capabilities.
The ideal candidate has a strong infrastructure background in VMware, Windows Server, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, along with a passion for using automation to reduce manual effort, improve operational consistency, and accelerate service delivery. This position supports a vision of simplified, standardized, and automated solutions that enable secure, highly available, and scalable infrastructure services.Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain enterprise automation solutions using Ansible, Python, PowerShell, and related automation technologies.
- Design, develop, and support automation workflows for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, patching, compliance validation, application deployment, and operational support activities.
- Develop and support Event Driven Ansible solutions that automate operational tasks, incident response, and remediation activities.
- Automate administrative and operational processes across VMware, Windows Server, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
- Integrate automation solutions with enterprise platforms including ServiceNow, monitoring tools, application programming interfaces, web services, configuration management database platforms, and infrastructure management systems.
- Develop reusable automation frameworks, playbooks, roles, templates, and standards that improve consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Leverage modern development tools and AI assisted engineering capabilities to improve code quality, accelerate automation development, reduce technical debt, and increase engineering productivity.
- Participate in the development and support of continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines utilizing technologies such as Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and automated testing frameworks.
- Troubleshoot automation failures and collaborate with infrastructure teams to identify and resolve root causes.
- Participate in automation platform maintenance, upgrades, and lifecycle management activities.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, standards, and knowledge articles.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams using Agile methodologies to deliver automation solutions that improve business outcomes.
- Ensure automation solutions comply with cybersecurity, regulatory, audit, and corporate standards.
- Participate in incident response, problem management, and continuous improvement activities.
- Stay current on emerging automation and AI technologies and identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency. Qualifications:
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Three or more years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, infrastructure automation, DevOps, or related technical roles.
- Experience developing automation using Ansible Core, Open Source Ansible, or Ansible Automation Platform, including playbooks, roles, inventories, templates, and modules.
- Experience administering and supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
- Experience administering and supporting Windows Server environments.
- Experience working within VMware vSphere and vCenter environments.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python and PowerShell.
- Experience using Git based source control systems.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure administration, operating systems, networking, and security fundamentals.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem solving skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical teams.
Preferred
- Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
- Experience with Event Driven Ansible.
- Experience automating VMware administration using Ansible, PowerCLI, application programming interfaces, or related automation tools.
- Experience integrating automation solutions with ServiceNow or other information technology service management platforms.
- Experience developing integrations using REST application programming interfaces, webhooks, and scripting.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code concepts and tools such as Terraform.
- Experience with container technologies including Podman, Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds, Grafana, or similar tools.
- Experience using AI assisted development tools such as Kiro, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Amazon Q Developer, or similar technologies.
- Experience leveraging AI tools to improve software development productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and automation engineering workflows.
- Experience working in Agile product delivery environments.
- Relevant Red Hat, VMware, Microsoft, or automation certifications.
Additional Success Factors
- Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure concepts, including virtualization, operating systems, networking, and cybersecurity.
- Ability to identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency through automation.
- Ability to learn new technologies and apply them to solve business problems.
- Interest in emerging automation, AI, and platform engineering practices.
- Strong customer service skills and a commitment to delivering high quality solutions.
- Ability to build productive working relationships across technical and business teams.
- Effective communication skills with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team oriented environment.
- Passion for automation and operational excellence.
- Curiosity and willingness to continuously learn and adapt.
- Commitment to improving processes, reducing manual effort, and enhancing service reliability.
- Enthusiasm for leveraging AI and automation to solve operational challenges. Tools and Technologies:
- Ansible Core
- Open Source Ansible
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
- Event Driven Ansible
- Python
- PowerShell
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Windows Server
- VMware vSphere
- VMware vCenter
- PowerCLI
- Git
- GitHub
- Jenkins
- Azure DevOps
- ServiceNow
- REST application programming interfaces
- Webhooks
- Configuration management database platforms
- Terraform
- Podman
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- LogicMonitor
- SolarWinds
- Grafana
- Kiro
- Claude Code
- GitHub Copilot
- Cursor
Pay: $70.00 - $75.00 per hour
Experience:
- Ansible: 3 years (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in St. Louis, MO 63110
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in infrastructure automation engineer jobs.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi for infrastructure provisioning
- Proficiency with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
- Experience managing containerized workloads using Kubernetes or Docker
- Strong scripting ability in Python, Bash, or Go for automation tasks
- Familiarity with major cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Infrastructure Automation Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to IaC toolchains
Hiring managers scan for specific tools like Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or CloudFormation before reading anything else. List the tools you've used alongside the cloud providers they targeted, so your resume clears the initial screen without ambiguity.
Quantify pipeline improvements you delivered
Vague bullets like 'improved deployment speed' don't stand out. Describe the before and after in concrete terms, such as reducing deployment time from hours to minutes or cutting failed builds by a measurable amount, using the actual metrics from your work.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists infrastructure automation engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter openings by tech stack alignment
Job postings for this role vary enormously by stack. Before applying, check whether the team runs Kubernetes or ECS, uses GitOps or traditional CI, and favors AWS, GCP, or Azure. Applying to roles that match your hands-on experience increases your callback rate significantly.
Prepare a live demo or public repository
Many hiring panels for infrastructure automation roles ask for working examples, not just descriptions. A public repo showing a real IaC module, a pipeline you built, or a monitoring setup you configured is far more persuasive than a resume line alone.
Negotiate around on-call scope and tooling budget
Infrastructure automation engineers often inherit legacy systems with undefined on-call expectations. Ask directly about on-call rotation frequency, incident ownership, and whether the team has budget for tooling upgrades before accepting an offer.
Infrastructure Automation Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most infrastructure automation engineers?
The companies hiring the most infrastructure automation engineers right now include Amazon, Google, and BV Teck, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and North Carolina, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Demand is concentrated in organizations scaling cloud-native platforms and modernizing legacy deployment pipelines.
How many infrastructure automation engineer jobs are remote?
About 50% of infrastructure automation engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of August 2026, making it one of the more remote-accessible engineering disciplines. Roles focused on IaC development and CI/CD pipeline work tend to have the highest remote availability, while positions tied to on-premises data centers or regulated environments more often require on-site presence.
How do you become an infrastructure automation engineer?
Start by building hands-on skills in at least one IaC tool like Terraform and one CI/CD platform like GitHub Actions. Learn containerization through Kubernetes or Docker, and practice deploying real workloads on a cloud provider. Contribute to open-source infrastructure projects or build a personal lab environment to demonstrate applied experience. Certifications from AWS, GCP, or HashiCorp strengthen your application for roles that require verified cloud competency.
Can you get hired as an infrastructure automation engineer with little experience?
Yes, entry-level infrastructure automation engineer roles do exist, particularly at companies modernizing their DevOps practices. Employers at this level prioritize demonstrable skills over years of experience, so a public repository showing real IaC or pipeline work carries more weight than formal credentials alone. Roles titled DevOps engineer, platform engineer, or site reliability engineer at smaller companies often serve as practical entry points into automation-focused work.
What does the infrastructure automation engineer interview process look like?
Most hiring processes begin with a recruiter screen focused on your tool experience and background, followed by a technical phone interview covering IaC concepts, scripting, and cloud architecture fundamentals. A take-home or live coding exercise involving Terraform, a pipeline configuration, or a debugging scenario is common at the mid-stage. Final rounds typically include a systems design discussion and a panel interview with platform or DevOps team members.
Where can I find and apply to infrastructure automation engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to infrastructure automation engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the available roles, find the ones that match your skills and target stack, and apply directly to each listing without leaving the platform.
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