Senior Automation Engineer

This role can be located in Wichita, KS / Plano, TX / Atlanta, GA and requires an in-office presence with flexibility. This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship.

About the role

The Sr. Automation Engineer is responsible for creating reusable automation capabilities, enabling platform engineering, and driving operational efficiency across IT Employee Services. This role creates business value through automation by reducing manual effort, improving reliability, accelerating delivery, and leveraging AI. This role partners closely with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to translate business needs into practical platform and automation capabilities. The Sr. Automation Engineer is expected to drive modernization, establish repeatable engineering patterns, evaluate tooling and design choices, and mentor technical contributors through coaching and demonstrating.

Our Team

The IT Employee Services Organization provides value-added strategic partnerships with other Koch companies in ownership and support of several key processes and platforms. We deliver IT products and services that enable employee success and collaboration, foundational accounts and devices, and transformational mobility and XR experiences. As a trusted partner, we focus on people, processes, technology, and data to drive transformation. Our team members are key contributors through the application of frameworks and principles with an emphasis on leveraging critical and economic thinking to drive value.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target-state DevOps and automation architecture, including CI/CD patterns, infrastructure as code standards, environment strategies, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Design, build, and maintain automations that eliminate manual work across Collaboration Technology and Endpoint teams. Leverage AI, Copilot, intelligent agents, APIs, and event-driven architectures to create self-service capabilities, automate business processes, improve decision-making, and advance automation-first ways of working.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, and product stakeholders to prioritize modernization opportunities and align technical solutions to business outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship by guiding design decisions, reviewing patterns and implementations, and coaching teams on DevOps, automation, and engineering best practices.
• Analyze operational data, incidents, service requests, and platform telemetry to identify automation opportunities, reduce recurring support demand, improve service reliability, and drive continuous operational excellence.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and supporting automation, DevOps, cloud, or platform engineering solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, APIs, workflow orchestration, and other automation technologies, with a focus on reducing manual effort and improving efficiency.
• Experience developing and supporting CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and modern deployment practices using Terraform, Git, GitLab, Azure DevOps, GitHub, or similar tools.
• Proven ability to analyze operational processes, service demand, telemetry, and support trends to identify opportunities for automation, reliability improvements, self-service, and ticket reduction.
• Curiosity for emerging technologies such as AI, Copilot, intelligent agents, and event-driven automation, with a passion for applying innovative solutions to business and operational challenges.
• Ability to partner across technical and business teams, mentor others, challenge the status quo, and drive continuous improvement through an automation-first mindset.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience with enterprise automation tooling, cloud platforms, observability solutions, and infrastructure orchestration frameworks.
• Background in DevOps architecture, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or large-scale operational transformation initiatives.
• Relevant certifications or advanced experience in cloud architecture, Kubernetes, automation, or secure software delivery practices.

Pay

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.