IT Automation Engineer
Volt

Move Forward with VOLT

Volt is immediately hiring for an IT Automation Engineer in Spokane, WA-REMOTE

Position type: Full-time, Contingent

Duration: 3+ years

Location: Remote

As an IT Automation Engineer you will:

Role Summary

We are seeking an infrastructure focused Automation Engineer to join our Enterprise IT Automation Team. This role is ideal for an engineer with a strong background in networking, systems, virtualization, or endpoint computing who is passionate about automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

You will work within an established enterprise automation team responsible for building, operating, and governing infrastructure automation at scale. This role offers hands on experience with modern automation tooling, well defined standards, and opportunities to help evolve those standards, while working closely with multiple IT domains.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise infrastructure automation using Ansible and scripting languages
• Automate provisioning, configuration management, and operational workflows across infrastructure platforms
• Build event driven automation, triggered by monitoring alerts, incidents, or workflow systems
• Partner with teams across Networking, Central Systems, Security, Endpoint, and other IT domains to enable repeatable, standardized automation
• Contribute automation content using Git based workflows and CI/CD pipelines
• Integrate automation with upstream and downstream systems using APIs and data sources
• Support observability and operational automation through integrations with tools such as Splunk
• Follow and contribute to enterprise automation standards, patterns, and governance models

Required Experience

The following capabilities are considered core requirements for success in this role:

• Strong background in an infrastructure domain (networking, systems, virtualization, or endpoint computing)
• Hands on experience automating infrastructure (Ansible or similar automation frameworks)
• Comfort with scripting using Python and/or PowerShell, plus YAML
• Experience working with Git repositories and in a CI/CD and Agile development environment
• Experience working within GitOps and Gitflow based development workflows at an enterprise scale
• Experience integrating or automating across multiple platforms using APIs

Preferred / Desirable Experience

• Experience with NetBox
• Experience with Splunk or observability driven automation
• Experience with ServiceNow triggered automation or CMDB automation
• Familiarity with DevOps and SRE concepts beyond basic monitoring and runbooks

What Makes Someone Successful Here

• Strong foundational infrastructure knowledge paired with an automation first mindset
• Ability to turn manual, error prone processes into repeatable, reliable automation
• Comfort working across multiple IT teams and technology stacks
• Willingness to learn and apply enterprise automation standards, patterns, and guardrails
• Ability to document automation, create runbooks, and support operational handoff
• Curiosity, pragmatism, and a bias toward operational excellence

Pay range: $50.00-70.00/hour

*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

Qualified candidates should APPLY NOW for immediate consideration! Please hit APPLY to provide the required information, and we will be back in touch as soon as possible.

Benefits: Volt offers benefits (based on eligibility) that include the following: health, dental, vision, term life, short term disability, AD&D, 401(k), Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Volt is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Volt is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national origin, citizenship, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the statutes, rules, and regulations in the locations where it operates. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please email hr_dept@volt.com or call (866) -898-0005. Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed.

Volt does not discriminate against applicants based on citizenship status, immigration status, or national origin, in accordance with 8 U.S.C. § 1324b. The company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner that complies with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.

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