IaC Automation Engineer (Ansible, Nautobot)

Job Title: IaC Automation Engineer

Location: Buffalo, NY

Work Type: Full-time

Work Model: Hybrid

No C2C , C2H, 1099 or Visa Sponsorship/Transfers available

Nature & Scope:

Positional Overview

The Imagine Group is recruiting for a IaC Automation Engineer on behalf of our client, a leading regional financial services institution in Buffalo, New York. This organization offers a full range of commercial and retail banking solutions, including deposit accounts, lending products, wealth management, and digital banking tools to individuals, businesses, and institutions across the Eastern United States.

In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining complex technical infrastructure and systems to support scalable, reliable technology solutions that meet evolving business needs. You will also be responsible for troubleshooting and resolving technical issues, collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions, and contributing to the development of technical standards and best practices.

Role & Responsibility:

Tasks That Will Lead to Your Success

• Work closely with Technology management, senior Engineers, and support teams on a regular basis to implement and manage the design, development, and execution of technical solutions that meet or exceed current and future needs of the organization.
• Responsibilities may include infrastructure architecture and design, research and development of new or expanded systems, creation of technology standards and policies, thorough analysis of user requirements and operational constraints, unit test and system integration, and user acceptance testing.
• Regularly and independently interact with business partners of varying associate and management levels to ensure clarity of the problem/opportunity and elicit business requirements.
• Coordinate vendor interactions and/or vendor resources as needed.
• Mentor and coach less experienced engineers, technicians, and integrators. Review documentation, proposals, and changes proposed by less experienced staff.
• Seek to expand knowledge and understanding of Financial Services trends, practices, and technologies on a continuous basis.
• Follow and promote use of industry best practices, standards and procedures.
• Maintain a strong aptitude and working knowledge of Bank applications, systems, development environments. Maintain a detailed understanding of vendor technologies and services used by the Bank.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the company brand.
• Maintain company internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.

Skills & Experience

Qualifications That Will Help You Thrive

• Combined minimum of 6 years higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management and/or architecture.
• Experience automating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Nautobot and Ansible.
• Experience with modern DevOps practices and Network Engineering
• Strong understanding of the system development and infrastructure lifecycle and architecture, vendor best practices, IT Service Management, and systems design.

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