Senior Cloud Engineer (Automation)
About The Position
The Senior Cloud Engineer will advance NYPA’s technical modernization by designing and automating secure, scalable cloud infrastructure. As a member of the Cloud Architecture & Automation team, this role designs, implements, and maintains resilient, compliant, highly automated infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The engineer works with internal IT teams and business stakeholders to streamline processes and build reliable automation pipelines using infrastructure as code (IaC), Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, and related technologies. The role leads automation initiatives across IT to increase efficiency and reduce manual processes, and collaborates with Infrastructure, Networking, Application Development, and other teams to design and implement automated workflows. It also supports NYPA’s AI Center of Excellence by enabling scalable, repeatable solution patterns and helping deliver AI use cases. The successful candidate brings hands-on multi-cloud and end-to-end infrastructure automation experience, along with communication, collaboration, and influencing skills to build alignment and stakeholder support. The position focuses on creating resilient, compliant, repeatable automation frameworks aligned with enterprise cybersecurity and digital architecture standards. It also includes responsibilities for analyzing business and user requirements, developing solution designs and documentation, supporting project and technical relationships with IT and business leads, and remaining informed about industry technologies and partners. Overnight travel to NYPA locations within New York State is required.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience in multi-cloud environments and developing end-to-end infrastructure automation.
- Deep experience with infrastructure as code, workflow orchestration, and cloud-native automation.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, ARM templates, GitHub, and GitHub Actions.
- Advanced scripting skills in Python and other programming languages.
- Knowledge of DevSecOps principles, including secure-by-design practices, policy as code, CI/CD pipelines with integrated security, and secrets and certificate management.
- Experience analyzing business and application requirements and presenting architectural solutions.
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture and solution architecture principles and frameworks.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and ability to communicate with diverse customers, partners, and colleagues.
- Ability to learn, understand, and work with emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions.
- Experience identifying and selecting software solutions for business needs, including COTS, SaaS, and PaaS applications.
- Knowledge of cloud computing, datacenter consolidation, IT infrastructure services, cybersecurity, and data management services.
- Knowledge of network administration and security principles and practices related to architecture.
- Advanced knowledge of industry-standard solution engineering, application architecture, and systems integration approaches and concepts.
- Ability to lead a project team’s effort to engineer and deliver enterprise architecture deliverables with minimal supervision.
- Overnight travel to NYPA locations within New York State is required.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related field preferred.
- At least 6 years of experience providing solution engineering, application architecture, and systems integration services for technology projects preferred.
- Professional experience architecting or operating solutions built on public cloud platforms.
- Architecture certification preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead automation initiatives across the IT organization to increase efficiency and reduce manual processes.
- Work with Infrastructure, Networking, Application Development, and other IT teams to design and implement automated workflows and joint initiatives.
- Support the AI Center of Excellence by streamlining AI use-case delivery and enabling scalable, repeatable solution patterns.
- Automate provisioning, scaling, configuration, and operational tasks across hybrid environments.
- Develop infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, and related tools, and maintain Python scripts.
- Manage automation scripts, workflows, and versioning using GitHub.
- Collaborate with the AI Center of Excellence to provision cloud infrastructure, establish governance, and assist with proof-of-concept efforts.
- Build automated provisioning and deployment workflows for rapid, scalable solution delivery across multiple use cases.
- Analyze client and user requirements; design, develop, and test software to meet specifications, including documenting complex business requirements, challenges, and processes.
- Assist with developing and finalizing RFIs, RFPs, and questionnaires with IT partners and business stakeholders.
- Develop designs, layouts, and documentation identifying project requirements and how components will be integrated.
- Ensure project teams uncover, understand, and document complex business requirements, challenges, and processes.
- Manage technical relationships with IT and business leads, including product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, coordination of technical resources, and translation of business requirements into solution designs.
- Stay informed about industry news, technology products, platforms, and partners.
- Lead project-team efforts to engineer and deliver enterprise architecture deliverables with minimal supervision.
- Travel overnight to NYPA locations within New York State.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
