[Hiring] Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer @TISTA Science and Technology Corporation

Role Description

TISTA is seeking hands-on Infrastructure Automation Engineers to build, operate, and continuously improve the IE&O Automation Center of Excellence. The team will engineer reusable automation for on-premises infrastructure using Ansible, OpenTofu (Tofu), Terraform, Red Hat OpenShift, and VMware technologies.

• Automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of virtual machines, storage, databases, and supporting services.
• Turn approved designs into tested, version-controlled Golden Paths for Application Hosting and Application Services teams.
• Write and troubleshoot automation, prove it works, enable other teams to use it, and maintain it after release.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in systems, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
• 3+ years developing and supporting production infrastructure automation.
• Recent hands-on Ansible development and practical Terraform or OpenTofu experience.
• Production automation experience in VMware vSphere/vCenter or Red Hat OpenShift.
• Working knowledge of Linux and/or Windows administration, network/DNS/connectivity dependencies, storage, identity/permissions, databases, backup, and recovery.
• Git-based collaboration, code review, reusable components, automated testing, and scripting with Python, PowerShell, Bash, or comparable languages.
• Ability to gather requirements, demonstrate working automation, document interfaces, and train consumers.

Requirements

• Ability to explain and troubleshoot playbooks, roles, modules, inventory, variable handling, APIs, plans, state, dependencies, and failures.
• Direct automation depth in at least one of storage or database lifecycle integration.
• Ability to secure credentials and state, limit change impact, handle repeat execution and partial failures, protect data, and support automation after release.
• Ability to explain progress, failures, risks, and measured outcomes in plain language.

Benefits

• Above Industry Healthcare Benefits
• Remote Working Options
• Paid Time Off
• Training/Certification opportunities
• Healthcare Savings Account & Flexible Savings Account
• Paid Life Insurance
• Short-term & Long-term Disability
• 401K Match
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Holidays
• Military Leave
• And much more!