Senior Cloud Orchestration Automation Engineer

Core Responsibilities

• Lead automation initiatives across the IT organization to increase efficiency and reduce manual processes.
• Work closely with Infrastructure, Networking, Application Development, and other IT teams to design and implement automated workflows, using strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Support the AI Center of Excellence (AI CoE) by streamlining the delivery of AI use cases and enabling scalable, repeatable solution patterns.

Key Activities

• Partner with teams across Infrastructure, Application Development, and Networking to automate processes and develop joint automation initiatives.
• Automate provisioning, scaling, configuration, and operational tasks across hybrid environments.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Ansible, and related tools; maintain strong Python scripting capabilities.
• Manage automation scripts, workflows, and versioning using GitHub.
• Collaborate with the AI CoE to support new use cases by provisioning cloud infrastructure, establishing governance, and assisting with proof-of-concept efforts.
• Build automated provisioning and deployment workflows that enable rapid, scalable solution delivery across multiple use cases.

Responsibilities

• Conduct thorough analysis of client/user requirements, design, develop and test the software to meet defined specifications.
• Lead efforts to uncover, comprehend, and document complex business requirements, challenges, and processes.
• Aid in developing and finalizing Request for Information (RFI), Request for Proposal (RFP), and questionnaires in conjunction with IT partners and business stakeholders.
• Develop designs, layouts, and documentation to identify project requirements and how specific aspects will be integrated cohesively.
• Ensure project teams uncover, comprehend, and document complex business requirements, challenges, and processes.
• Responsible for the technical relationship with IT and Business leads, including managing product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, coordination of additional technical resources, and obtaining business requirements and translating these into a Solution Design.
• Remain abreast of industry news, technology products, platforms, and partners to ensure you and your team provide and maintain a deep industry and ecosystem expertise.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to lead a project team's effort to engineer and deliver EA deliverables with minimal supervision.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with a diverse group of customers, partners, and colleagues.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions.
• Experience of identifying and selecting software solutions to business needs including Commercial of the Shelf (COTS), SaaS and PaaS applications.
• Knowledgeable in advanced concepts of cloud computing, datacenter consolidation, IT infrastructure services, cyber security, data management services, etc.
• Knowledge of advanced network administration and security principles and practices related to architecture.
• Advanced knowledge of most industry-standard solution engineering, application architecture and systems integration approaches and concepts.

Education, Experience and Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT related field preferred.
• Minimum 6 years or more experience of providing solution engineering, application architecture and systems integration services for technology projects preferred.
• Experience in analyzing business and application requirements and presenting architectural solutions.
• Knowledge of EA and SA principles and frameworks.
• Professional experience in architecting/operating solutions built on public cloud platforms with Architecture certification preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Overnight travel to the various NYPA locations within New York State.

Pay

The estimated salary range for this position is: $145,000 - $181,000.

Schedule

NYPA/Canals will provide reasonable accommodations during the hiring process related to candidates’ disabilities, pregnancy-related conditions, religious observances/practices and/or domestic violence concerns.