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About the Role

The Senior Cloud Orchestration Automation Engineer will play a pivotal role in advancing automation throughout NYPA's evolving technical and digital landscape, essential for modernizing IT operations and meeting the demand for clean energy. This role focuses on designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and fully automated cloud infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead automation initiatives across the IT organization to increase efficiency and reduce manual processes.
• Work closely with Infrastructure, Networking, Application Development, and other IT teams to design and implement automated workflows.
• Support the AI Center of Excellence (AI CoE) by streamlining the delivery of AI use cases and enabling scalable, repeatable solution patterns.
• Conduct thorough analysis of client/user requirements, design, develop and test the software to meet defined specifications.
• Lead efforts to uncover, comprehend, and document complex business requirements, challenges, and processes.
• Assist with developing and finalizing RFIs, RFPs and questionnaires in conjunction with IT partners and business stakeholders.
• Develop designs, layouts, and documentation to identify project requirements and how specific aspects will be integrated cohesively.
• Ensure project teams uncover, comprehend, and document complex business requirements, challenges, and processes.
• Responsible for the technical relationship with IT and Business leads, including managing product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, coordination of additional technical resources, and obtaining business requirements and translates these into a Solution Design.
• Remain abreast of industry news, technology products, platforms, and partners to ensure you and your team provide and maintain a deep industry and ecosystem expertise.
• Automate provisioning, scaling, configuration, and operational tasks across hybrid environments.
• Manage automation scripts, workflows, and versioning using GitHub.
• Collaborate with the AI CoE to support new use cases by provisioning cloud infrastructure, establishing governance, and assisting with proof-of-concept efforts.
• Build automated provisioning and deployment workflows that enable rapid, scalable solution delivery across multiple use cases.

Requirements

• Deep experience with Infrastructure-as-code (IaC), workflow orchestration, and cloud-native automation.
• Experience with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, ARM templates, GitHub/GitHub Actions.
• Advanced scripting in Python and other programming languages.
• Experience with DevSecOps principles, including secure-by-design practices, policy-as-code, CI/CD pipelines with integrated security, and secrets/certificate management.
• Building resilient, compliant, and highly repeatable automation frameworks aligned with enterprise cybersecurity and digital architecture standards.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a project team's effort to engineer and deliver EA deliverables with minimal supervision.
• Experience of identifying and selecting software solutions to business needs including Commercial of the Shelf (COTS), SaaS and PaaS applications.
• Experience in analyzing business and application requirements and present architectural solutions.

Skills

• Terraform
• Ansible
• ARM templates
• GitHub
• GitHub Actions
• Python
• DevSecOps
• Infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
• Workflow orchestration
• Cloud-native automation
• Secure-by-design practices
• Policy-as-code
• CI/CD pipelines
• Secrets/certificate management
• Communication
• Relationship-building
• Scripting
• Cloud computing
• Datacenter consolidation
• IT infrastructure services
• Cyber security
• Data management services
• Network administration
• Solution engineering
• Application architecture
• Systems integration

Location

• New York State

Work Type

• Onsite

Experience Level

• Senior
• Minimum 6 years or more experience of providing solution engineering, application architecture and systems integration services for technology projects preferred.
• Professional experience in architecting/operating solutions built on public cloud platforms with Architecture certification preferred.

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT related field preferred.

Salary/Compensations

• $145,000 - $181,000

About the Company

• The New York Power Authority (NYPA) is committed to ensuring we meet the increasing demand for clean energy across New York State.
• The New York Power Authority and Canal Corporation believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion drive our success, and we encourage women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents and veterans to apply.
• As an equal opportunity employer, NYPA/Canals is committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect communities across New York and enthusiastically serve them.

Equal Opportunity

• We proudly celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race/color, creed/religion, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, age, disability, military status, gender/sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy and related conditions, familial/marital status, domestic violence victim status, predisposing genetic characteristics, arrest/criminal conviction record or any other category protected by law.
• NYPA/Canals will also provide reasonable accommodations during the hiring process related to candidates’ disabilities, pregnancy-related conditions, religious observances/practices and/or domestic violence concerns. To request an accommodation, please email accessibility@nypa.gov.