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This includes evaluating and recommending automation tools and technologies and ensuring alignment with business objectives.\r\nArchitecture & Design: Lead the design and development of robust, scalable, and secure automation frameworks and infrastructure blueprints (often using Infrastructure as Code principles).\r\nImplementation & Execution: Oversee the implementation of automation solutions for provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment, often within CI/CD pipelines. This may involve managing projects, budgets, and external vendors.\r\nTechnical Expertise & Troubleshooting: Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for highly complex issues, performing root-cause analysis and providing technical consultation.\r\nMentorship & Collaboration: Mentor and guide junior engineers and cross-functional teams (e.g., SREs, QA, and product teams) on automation best practices, code quality, and design patterns.\r\nCompliance & Security: Ensure all automated systems comply with internal security standards and external regulatory requirements (e.g., FDA, ISO, FedRAMP, specific industry regulations).\r\nMonitoring & Improvement: Implement comprehensive monitoring and logging systems, using the gathered data to drive continuous improvement in efficiency, reliability, and performance.\r\nEssential Skills and Qualifications\r\nExperience: Typically requires 10+ years of experience in software development, IT automation, and/or infrastructure engineering.\r\nEducation: A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field is often required.\r\nTechnical Proficiency\r\nAutomation Tools: Extensive experience with tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, or AWS CloudFormation.\r\nProgramming/Scripting: Strong skills in languages such as Python, Java, PowerShell, or Bash for automation and tooling.\r\nCloud Platforms: Expertise in managing scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure in environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).\r\nDevOps Tools: Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring tools like Prometheus or Grafana.\r\nSoft Skills\r\nExceptional problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills.\r\nStrong communication and leadership abilities, with a proven ability to influence senior levels and build alignment across teams.\r\nStrong project management skills to manage complex, large-scale projects from concept to completion.\r\nCompensation may vary depending on your location, qualifications including job-related education, training, experience, licensure, and certification, that could result at a level outside of these ranges. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus, and sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role as well as individual performance.\r\nNY generally ranges: $165,550-$248,324\r\nCA generally ranges: $172,748-$259,122\r\nAll other locations fall under our General State range: $143,957-$215,935\r\nBenefits may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Cloud Software Group and the country where you work. U.S. based employees are typically offered access to healthcare, life insurance and disability benefits, 401(k) plan and company match, among others.\r\nCloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. 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