QA Automation Engineer

• Architect and personally build Terraform and Ansible/AAP pipelines across Azure, AWS, and OCI
• Replace live branch-sync and direct-apply patterns with version-pinned, gated promotion
• Design and implement GitOps delivery via ArgoCD/OpenShift GitOps
• Define reference architectures, module/role standards, and reusable shared-module conventions
• Lead remediation of Terraform uplift and Ansible greenfield rebuild
• Build and mature security tooling for static analysis, policy-as-code, linting, cloud-config scanning, CVE scanning, software composition analysis, and secret scanning
• Establish SIEM and audit-trail coverage for Git activity, plan/apply and job-execution events, and secrets access
• Own the formal exception process for tooling deviations
• Generate SBOMs and publish signed artifacts for production builds
• Run forensic, evidence-based audits of live infrastructure-as-code estates
• Identify and close shadow-repository and personal-namespace automation risks
• Partner with Change Management, Release Management, and the Change Advisory Board on change records, approvals, and lockdown windows
• Own automation supporting production workloads, including VM lifecycle, disaster-recovery failover, and capacity management
• Move control-plane configuration to config-as-code
• Build, lead, and grow a team of cloud and platform engineers
• Hire, manage performance, and support career development
• Serve as escalation point and technical authority for cloud automation architecture
• Mentor engineers on secure pipeline design and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Represent cloud automation engineering in architecture, security, and compliance forums
• Translate technical risk and roadmap into actionable information for senior stakeholders

QA Automation Engineer jobs in Connecticut

Manager, Cloud Automation Engineering