Senior Automation & Platform Engineer

Senior Automation & Platform Engineer
Position Summary
Seeking a Senior Automation & Platform Engineer to reduce manual work, operational risk, and delivery friction.
This is a hands-on delivery role. The engineer will work directly with product, operations, infrastructure, and DevSecOps teams to identify manual or fragile processes and rapidly turn them into maintainable automation.
Required Experience
• 7–10+ years in platform engineering, DevSecOps, systems engineering, or infrastructure automation
• Strong hands-on experience automating enterprise operational and delivery processes
• Experience working across Linux, cloud, CI/CD, and application environments
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills
• Proven ability to work independently and deliver quickly with minimal direction
Automation Expertise
• Python and Bash scripting
• Ansible
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar CI/CD tooling
• REST APIs and CLI-based automation
• AWS and/or Azure
• Linux / RHEL
• Kubernetes and containers
• Git / GitHub
Compensation:
$130,000-$140,000 annually, plus benefits, including medical/dental/vision coverage, PTO and a partial 401k match.
Vetting:
Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client.
ThunderYard Solutions is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We don’t just accept difference – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our community, and our customers. All applicants will be considered for employment without discrimination of race, color, religion, or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status, protected veteran status, family medical history or genetic information

Work arrangement
Yes