Senior Automation Engineer

Your Job

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.

Location: 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.

What You Will Do



* 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.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* 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 ...