Cloud Automation Engineer

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant’s sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Job Description

The Cloud Automation Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the automation platforms, infrastructure-as-code frameworks, and cloud operational tooling that enable VERSANT’s cloud-first technology strategy. 

This role focuses on building scalable, repeatable, and secure automation solutions across a large multi-account AWS environment. The engineer will partner with cloud engineering, application development, networking, security, and operations teams to automate cloud provisioning, governance, identity management, deployments, monitoring, and operational workflows. 

As a leading media company, VERSANT operates a diverse portfolio of digital products, content platforms, streaming services, and media workflows. The Cloud Automation Engineer will develop automation solutions that support media processing, content delivery, streaming platforms, and customer-facing digital applications running in AWS. 

The ideal candidate has strong experience with AWS, infrastructure as code, CI/CD platforms, cloud governance, and automation engineering. Experience with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Identity Center, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and cloud-native operational tooling is highly desired. Experience from Azure and GCP is beneficial but not required. 

Responsibilities 

Cloud Automation & Infrastructure as Code 

• Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, and related automation frameworks. 

• Build reusable modules, templates, and automation patterns that enable consistent deployment of cloud infrastructure. 

• Automate provisioning, configuration, lifecycle management, and decommissioning of cloud resources. 

• Ensure cloud infrastructure is version-controlled, auditable, and deployed through automated workflows. 

• Develop automation solutions supporting media, streaming, content management, content delivery, and digital platform workloads operating in AWS. 

• Create reusable infrastructure patterns that enable application and media engineering teams to deploy services consistently and securely. 

AWS Platform Automation 

• Automate administration and governance of large AWS environments utilizing AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and Identity Center. 

• Develop automation for account provisioning, guardrail enforcement, resource tagging, policy management, and compliance controls. 

• Build self-service cloud capabilities that accelerate application team onboarding and deployment. 

• Support automation of identity, access management, and account lifecycle processes across AWS environments. 

CI/CD & Delivery Automation 

• Design and support CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments, including media services, content platforms, APIs, and customer-facing digital applications. 

• Implement automation for build, test, security scanning, release management, and deployment workflows. 

• Implement automated testing, deployment, and operational validation processes that improve reliability and delivery speed across media and digital workloads. 

• Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment reliability, consistency, and velocity. 

• Support GitOps and modern deployment methodologies. 

Identity & Security Automation 

• Develop automation supporting AWS IAM, Identity Center (SSO), federation, and role-based access controls. 

• Implement automated policy validation, security controls, compliance monitoring, and remediation workflows. 

• Partner with cybersecurity teams to embed security requirements into automated deployment pipelines. 

• Support cloud governance initiatives through automation and policy enforcement. 

Monitoring & Operational Excellence 

• Develop automation for monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational reporting.