Software Engineer 1- Database Automation Engineer

U.S. Bank • Saint Paul, MN

23h • Hybrid

About The Position

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. Job Description This position will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards in order to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Two to three years of relevant experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing, maintaining, or contributing to Ansible playbooks managed in Git-based repositories (e.g., GitLab or similar).
• Familiarity with integrating and operating Ansible automation within AWX or comparable orchestration platforms.
• Exposure to DevOps practices supporting database and server environments in cloud or hybrid infrastructures.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with software engineering and platform teams to support agile development and release cycles, including cloud‑native applications.
• Hands-on experience or working knowledge of automation and scripting using one or more of the following: Ansible, Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Unix shell scripting.
• Interest in building scalable, repeatable automation solutions to improve operational efficiency and reliability.
• Exposure to database and server DevOps in cloud, hybrid, or on‑prem environments.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
• Design and maintain Ansible playbooks in GitLab
• Integrate Ansible playbooks into AWX environments
• Collaborate with development teams to support agile release cycles and cloud-native applications.
• Develop scripts and automation tools using Ansible, Python, Bash, PowerShell, and Unix Shell.
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level