Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Company: Talent Software Services
Location: Minneapolis
Posted on: May 3, 2025

Job Description:

Infrastructure Automation Engineer III

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Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of an Infrastructure Automation Engineer for a contract position in Richfield, MN. The opportunity will be one year with a strong chance for a long-term extension.

Position Summary: We are Core Infrastructure Platform team dedicated to platform automation and maintain operational excellence at the company. Our culture emphasizes creativity, teamwork, and continuous learning. Build and maintain AWS infrastructure that enable most of our company's technology footprint to run. Also responsible to managing lifecycle of the infrastructure and optimizes to improve stability, minimize incidents and response times, while reducing costs by implementing automated solutions.

Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:Implement infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform, Ansible and Chef.
Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to automate the build and deployment processes.
Design and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure to support applications and services.
Implement best practices for cloud security, monitoring, and performance optimization.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate cloud solutions into existing systems.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to cloud infrastructure and services.
Stay updated with AWS services, features, and industry trends to recommend improvements.
On-call support for escalations/incidents.


Qualifications:8+ years of proven experience as Systems Engineer or Infrastructure Automation Engineer with focus on building platform automation tools and maintaining AWS infrastructure.
5+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
5+ years of experience with Configuration Management such as Chef and Ansible.
3+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or other DevOps tools.
Strong understanding of networking, security, and scalability concepts in cloud environments.
Effective collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.


Preferred: Master's or bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools for CICD pipelines.
Familiarity with agile methodologies and software development life cycle (SDLC).
AWS certification (e.g. AWS solution architect)


If this job is a match for your background, we would be honored to receive your application!

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