Windows Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Windows Infrastructure Automation Engineer

REMOTE

Contract (6+ Months)

W2 Contract Only

Job Summary

Design, develop, test, and maintain automation supporting the Windows Server lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, modification, upgrade, remediation, and decommissioning.

• Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using technologies such as Terraform, Ansible Automation Platform, PowerShell, and Packer.

• Create reusable Ansible roles, Terraform modules, PowerShell modules, APIs, and automation components.

• Automate Windows Server configuration, including operating system settings, domain integration, networking, security controls, enterprise agents, monitoring tools, and application prerequisites.

• Build and maintain standardized Windows Server golden images for VMware, AWS, Azure, and other supported infrastructure platforms.

• Integrate automation with VMware vSphere/VCF, AWS, Azure, Active Directory, DNS/IPAM, CMDB, monitoring platforms, and other enterprise services.

• Consume and integrate REST APIs and platform SDKs to automate infrastructure operations.

• Develop workflows for retrieving and managing infrastructure information such as virtual machines, datacenters, datastores, folders, tags, operating system information, and configuration metadata.

• Support automation associated with Windows Server modernization, operating system upgrades, migrations, and retirement of legacy infrastructure.

• Develop event-driven automation and automated remediation workflows.

• Troubleshoot automation failures across Windows, networking, authentication, APIs, cloud platforms, virtualization platforms, and enterprise integrations.

• Participate in code reviews and establish development standards for infrastructure automation.

• Maintain automation source code using Git-based version control and CI/CD practices.

• Create technical documentation, operational procedures, and reusable automation patterns.

• Identify repetitive, manual, or failure-prone operational processes and develop automated solutions.

• Partner with infrastructure, cloud, networking, security, application, database, and service management teams to deliver end-to-end infrastructure automation.

• Help enable self-service infrastructure capabilities while maintaining enterprise security and governance requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Experience administering and engineering Microsoft Windows Server environments.

• Experience with configuration management or automation platforms such as Ansible.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform.

• Experience working with REST APIs, JSON, and API-based infrastructure integrations.

• Experience with Git and modern source control practices.

• Understanding of Active Directory, DNS, networking, certificates, authentication, and Windows security concepts.

• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure and automation issues.

• Ability to convert manual technical procedures into reliable, reusable automation.

• Ability to work across multiple infrastructure and application teams in a large enterprise environment.