Senior Consultant, IT Infrastructure

About the role

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Senior AI Infrastructure Automation & Operations Engineer on our IT Infrastructure & Automation Team in Round Rock, Texas.

Responsibilities

• Help define new working methods for how AI impacts every aspect of what we do — how we structure the organization, drive team productivity, track our work, and more
• Leveraging state-of-the-art AI toolsets, design, implement, and maintain robust automation solutions using Python, Ansible, and related tooling
• Lead efforts to standardize and scale Infrastructure as Code (IaC) across environments; own the automation lifecycle for provisioning, configuration, patching, and decommissioning of infrastructure
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and operations workflows; diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure and automation issues across development and production systems
• Establish best practices for reliability, observability, backup, and disaster recovery; leverage AI coding assistants, agents, and modern IDEs to improve developer productivity, quality, and velocity; review code and automation changes; mentor junior engineers; contribute to a culture of continuous improvement; and participate in on-call rotations and incident response as a senior escalation point

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering, infrastructure automation, or IT operations, with experience using AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., AI coding assistants, autonomous or semi-autonomous agents, and modern IDE integrations) as part of daily engineering work
• Strong proficiency in Python for automation, tooling, and system integration, along with deep hands-on experience with Ansible or similar configuration management frameworks
• Strong knowledge of Linux and/or Windows systems administration and solid understanding of networking concepts (routing, DNS, TLS, firewalls, load balancing)
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code practices, version-controlled workflows, Git, and collaborative development practices
• Able to design maintainable systems, clearly document decisions and tradeoffs, with strong troubleshooting skills and comfort operating in production environments

Qualifications

• Experience operating infrastructure in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP); familiarity with containers and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes); experience with CI/CD systems and pipeline automation (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.); knowledge of secrets management, identity, and access control systems
• Exposure to monitoring, logging, and alerting stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.); experience designing high-availability and disaster recovery solutions; and prior experience influencing technical standards or architecture at the team or org level

Skills

• Strong proficiency in Python for automation, tooling, and system integration
• Deep hands-on experience with Ansible or similar configuration management frameworks
• Strong knowledge of Linux and/or Windows systems administration
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with containers and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD systems and pipeline automation (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.)
• Knowledge of secrets management, identity, and access control systems
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
• Experience designing high-availability and disaster recovery solutions
• Prior experience influencing technical standards or architecture at the team or org level

Benefits

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $174,000 to $238,700.

Pay

$174,000 to $238,700

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Perks

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