Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Company: Fisher Investments
Location: Prosper
Posted on: April 30, 2024

Job Description:

The Opportunity: The Infrastructure Automation Engineer is responsible designing, implementing, and maintaining automation solutions using Ansible. They will also be responsible for the creation and maintenance of automation policies and procedures. They will leverage their expertise to research and implement proof of concept activities, refine those activities to production ready solutions, then promote those changes through to our production environment. The successful candidate would need excellent collaboration skills to work with multiple teams in Fisher's landscape. This position reports to the Infrastructure Systems Team Leader. The Day-to-Day:

• Design, develops, and implements Ansible playbooks and roles to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments
• Improve automation, efficiency, consistency, and adherence to security/audit requirements and controls
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand automation requirements and create scalable and maintainable solutions
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Ansible to define, version, and manage infrastructure configurations
• Manage and optimize configuration management processes using Ansible for a diverse range of servers, networking devices, and applications
• Ensure consistency and compliance across the infrastructure through effective configuration management practices
• Collaborate with system administrators, Cloud Engineers, Infosec, and netsec professionals to gather requirements and provide automation solutions Your Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in MIS, computer science, or related field required or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • 5+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure & Operations
  • 5+ years of experience in automation, playbook and role creation
  • 3+ years of experience building, deploying and managing public cloud IaaS and PaaS services
  • Experience building an automated infrastructure across Production and Non-Production environments
  • Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) toolsets including (eg Terraform, Ansible) Why Fisher Investments: We work for a bigger purpose: bettering the investment universe. We take great pride in our inclusive culture, our learning and development framework customized for every employee, and our Great Place to Work Certification. It's the people that make the Fisher purpose possible, and we invest in them by offering exceptional benefits like:
    • 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your qualifying dependents
    • A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum
    • 20 days of PTO*, plus 10 paid holidays (*17 days of PTO and 3 days of sick time for California employees)
    • Family Support programs including 8 weeks Paid Primary Caregiver leave, adoption assistance and back-up child care
    • $10,000 fertility, hormonal health and family-forming benefit
    • Opportunity to participate in our hybrid work from home program. This program is subject to change. Based on tenure and performance eligibility, you will have the opportunity to work from home up to 75 days per year FISHER INVESTMENTS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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