Senior Automation Engineer at CloudLinux

About CloudLinux

CloudLinux builds Linux infrastructure and security products. You will join our Automation & Management Services cell, working closely with Dmitrii Petrov to solve problems across teams and services, including cloud cost data, infrastructure inventory, network policies, and capacity workflows. For more information, visit cloudlinux.com.

The Role: Senior Automation Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to join our Infrastructure team. In this role, you will independently own agreed outcomes, from clarifying needs with engineering, Finance, or Security teams to delivering and operating useful systems. Your work will encompass new development, improvements, repairs, and maintenance. There is no traditional on-call rotation; you will respond to alerts from your systems during working hours.

What You Will Do

• Turn incomplete briefs into agreed results and workable plans. Track cross team dependencies, explain tradeoffs, raise blockers early, and communicate changes to estimates. Confirm completion with users.
• Build maintainable software and cloud/infrastructure API integrations, handling credentials, pagination, retries, partial failures, and repeated execution to ensure unattended workflows are safe and reliable.
• Transform billing, usage, and inventory data into repeatable outputs. Reconcile totals and periods, apply agreed allocation rules, and highlight missing or uncertain mappings.
• Extend inventory, network policy, and capacity automation using existing systems, retaining necessary human decisions and verifying operational results.
• Deliver changes through version controlled code and CI. Understand live state, test recovery, and release safely. Diagnose failures across code, Linux, APIs, data, and networking.
• Own monitoring, actionable alerts, documentation, and maintenance. Create systems that other engineers can operate, and utilize coding agents while remaining responsible for design, code, tests, and outcomes.

Requirements

Must Have

• Senior level experience: Typically 5+ years in software, infrastructure, platform, or automation engineering. Ability to explain design decisions, implementation, and operational results.
• Strong technical skills: Production Python, software design, testing, debugging, and API integration. Ability to understand unfamiliar code and improve existing systems.
• AWS and Linux expertise: Hands on AWS experience and solid Linux/networking fundamentals, including diagnosis across host, service, network, and cloud boundaries.
• Practical SQL and data validation: Experience with joins, units, periods, ownership mappings, and reconciliation. Ability to distinguish evidence from assumptions.
• Safe infrastructure delivery: Through IaC and CI, understanding state, drift, idempotency, dependencies, and rollback, using tools such as Terraform/OpenTofu and Ansible.
• Advanced coding agent workflows: Demonstrated ability for real engineering tasks, planning and delegating substantial work, providing context, running agents without continuous supervision within defined permissions and stop conditions, and independently explaining, debugging, testing, and verifying their output.
• Autonomous delivery and clear collaboration: Investigate problems, obtain decisions, challenge unsafe or unnecessarily complex approaches, and follow through.
• English proficiency: B2 or higher for technical discussions, written decisions, and internal customer communication.

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud billing or FinOps tooling (e.g., AWS CUR/FOCUS, Athena), inventory or event driven integrations (e.g., NetBox or similar), network policies, flow monitoring, identity and access management, capacity tooling, additional cloud platforms, OpenNebula, Kubernetes, Go, or self-service systems.
• Familiarity with our environment, which includes Python, Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, GitLab CI/CD, Grafana, and related observability tools. Prior experience with every tool or domain is not required; we value the ability to quickly learn unfamiliar technologies, products, and internal business rules.

Benefits & Perks

• Focus on professional development.
• Interesting and challenging projects.
• Fully remote work with flexible working hours, allowing you to schedule your day and work from any location worldwide.
• Paid 24 days of vacation per year, 10 days of national holidays, and unlimited sick leaves.
• Compensation for private medical insurance.
• Co working and gym/sports reimbursement.
• Budget for education.
• Opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea that the company can patent.

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