Sr Technology Automation Engineer (Azure Cloud + Azure Devops + Terraform + AKS + Powershell + CI/CD Automation)

Senior Technology Automation Engineer

Job Purpose

The Senior Technology Automation Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, implementing, operating, and continuously improving enterprise automation solutions that enable automated service fulfillment, remediation, reporting, and platform operations across Assurant's technology ecosystem.

This role combines software engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, and operational ownership responsibilities. The engineer is accountable for delivering automation capabilities while ensuring the ongoing stability, security, compliance, lifecycle management, and operational excellence of automation platforms, applications, cloud services, and supporting third-party technologies.

The role partners closely with Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, Service Management, Architecture, Risk, Compliance, and vendor teams to reduce manual effort, improve operational efficiency, strengthen governance, enhance security, and increase platform reliability. Additionally, the role is responsible for identifying opportunities to leverage AI-assisted automation technologies to improve service delivery, operational effectiveness, and user experience across the enterprise.

This position will be in Bengaluru/Hyderabad at our India location

Working Hours: 3:30 PM IST to 12:30 AM IST

What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?

Automation Engineering & Solution Delivery

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain enterprise automation products and reusable automation components.

Develop software solutions using C#, Python, PowerShell, Bash, APIs, and cloud-native technologies.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies.

Perform peer code reviews and ensure adherence to enterprise development, security, and architectural standards.

Develop automation solutions for provisioning, remediation, orchestration, reporting, compliance, and service fulfillment processes.

Build and maintain integrations across enterprise platforms using REST and SOAP APIs.

Identify and implement AI-assisted automation opportunities

Platform Operations, Lifecycle Management & Governance

Own operational health, availability, performance, scalability, and reliability of automation platforms and supporting third-party technologies.

Monitor applications, integrations, cloud services, infrastructure components, and automation workflows.

Manage platform lifecycle activities including upgrades, patching, version management, dependency management, and end-of-life remediation.

Administer and support Azure cloud services and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments.

Ensure containerized workloads adhere to enterprise security, compliance, and operational standards.

Manage vulnerability remediation, security hardening activities, and technical debt reduction initiatives.

Develop and maintain modernization roadmaps.

Support disaster recovery planning, testing, and business continuity readiness.

Architecture, COE Participation & Technical Governance

Participate in architecture reviews, design reviews, and technical governance processes.

Promote reuse of enterprise automation components, standards, and best practices.

Contribute to enterprise automation strategy, platform roadmaps, and engineering standards.

Provide technical leadership and guidance.

Production Support, Risk, Compliance & Operational Excellence

Provide production support for automation platforms, cloud services, and enterprise integrations from tools in the platform such as Ansible/Tower, APIM, Atlassian Suite, Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, MuleSoft, Octopus, SailPoint, Salesforce, Service Fabric, ServiceNow, SSRS, etc.

Perform incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective action implementation.

Support audit, compliance, regulatory, and risk management activities.

Ensure compliance with security, risk, operational, and technology governance policies. Drafting and maintaining operational procedures and runbooks for managed service team execution.

What are the requirements needed for this position?

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related STEM discipline.

Minimum 5 years of experience across Automation Engineering, DevOps Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Systems Engineering.

Experience supporting enterprise production environments and mission-critical platforms.

Required Technical Skills

System Administration Windows Server administration (2016/2019/2022) and Linux administration (RHEL, Ubuntu)

Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, and enterprise infrastructure services

PowerShell and Bash scripting for systems administration and operational automation

Server provisioning, configuration management, patching, and operating system lifecycle management

IIS and web application hosting administration

Windows Services, scheduled tasks, certificates, and service account management

Enterprise file systems, storage, and permissions management

Performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for server and application infrastructure

Troubleshooting, administering, and supporting enterprise third-party applications, platforms, and integrations

Diagnosing application, infrastructure, network, and integration issues across vendor-supported platforms using logs, monitoring, and vendor documentation

Virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere and/or Hyper-V)

SSL/TLS certificate management and PKI fundamentals

System hardening, security baselines, vulnerability remediation, and compliance support

Backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and high availability concepts

Experience administering enterprise applications and supporting production environments

Software Development & Automation Python, PowerShell and Bash

REST and SOAP APIs

GitHub Flow, GitFlow, GitOps

Claude Code, GitHub Copilot (i.e. agentic automation technologies)

DevOps & CI/CD Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines

GitHub Actions and GitHub Workflows

CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code Terraform

Cloud & Platform Technologies Microsoft Azure

Azure PaaS Services (e.g. App Services, Functions, Cosmos DB, Data Factory, Key Vault, SQL Database)

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Docker and Kubernetes

API Management Technologies (e.g. Azure APIM, and/or MuleSoft, APISIX)

Identity & Access Management Active Directory and Entra ID

OpenID Connect (OIDC)

SSO Integration for 3rd Party Apps (i.e. authentication, authorization, SCIM, etc.)

Platform Operations & Governance Monitoring and Observability

Incident, Problem, Change and Release Management

Vulnerability Management

Technical Debt Management

Capacity Planning

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Audit and Compliance Support

Vendor Management

AI-assisted automation platforms

What are the preferred requirements for this position?

• Master's degree in related STEM discipline.
• Experience participating in an Automation or Platform Engineering COE.
• Terraform and Terraform Cloud.
• Ansible Automation Platform.
• SailPoint IDM and Okta.IDP
• Experience supporting SOX, SOC, ISO, PCI or similar compliance frameworks.
• Azure certifications.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).

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