Principal Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year technical vision and architecture for IT infrastructure automation, configuration management, orchestration, and self-service platforms.
• Set the technical direction for infrastructure automation and configuration management across technologies such as Ansible Automation Platform, AWX, Salt or equivalent platforms.
• Establish the strategy for applying AI to configuration management, including configuration intelligence, drift and compliance analysis, change-risk identification, root-cause assistance, intelligent recommendations, and guarded automated remediation.
• Remain deeply hands-on by developing prototypes and production software, reviewing critical code and designs, and resolving the most challenging technical and scalability problems.
• Build secure and scalable integrations across infrastructure platforms, cloud services, CMDB, secrets management, observability, and enterprise data systems.
• Set and drive configuration management strategy across networking, storage, and compute domains. Bring deep cross-domain technical expertise to identify gaps and challenge current methods. Establish architectures and engineering standards.
• Lead organizations in implementation and adoption within large-scale environments.
• Ensure platforms meet enterprise requirements for availability, scalability, performance, security, disaster recovery, observability, and operational support.
• Act as a force multiplier by mentoring senior and staff engineers, raising engineering standards, facilitating architectural decisions, and developing technical leaders across teams.
• Partner with engineering and executive leadership to translate critical business challenges into technical strategy, prioritized roadmaps, and measurable business outcomes.

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