Lead Associate Principal, Infrastructure Innovation & Automation

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What You'll Do:

The Lead Associate Principal, Infrastructure Innovation & Automation is a senior technical resource responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise infrastructure solutions with a strong emphasis on automation, platform engineering, operational excellence, and infrastructure modernization. This role requires hands-on expertise across Linux and Windows platforms, cloud technologies, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and automation frameworks. The position bridges strategic technical planning with hands-on execution and is expected to independently lead complex initiatives that improve scalability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency across OCC’s technology landscape.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Design, implement, and support scalable infrastructure solutions with a focus on automation, resilience, security, and operational efficiency.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using tools such as Ansible and Terraform Enterprise (TFE).

• Design, implement, and support CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows across AWS, and on-premises infrastructure environments.

• Drive automation initiatives for server provisioning, application deployment, configuration management, compliance enforcement, and operational processes.

• Contribute to infrastructure modernization efforts, including Windows and Linux platform automation, cloud adoption, and platform engineering initiatives.

• Design and implement automation solutions utilizing GitHub Actions, Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Terraform Enterprise, and related DevOps tooling.

• Support enterprise endpoint management and patching initiatives, including SCCM redesign, ManageEngine implementation, and Windows platform automation.

• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering, Security, Platform Engineering,  Application Development, and Operations teams to identify and implement automation opportunities.

• Lead proof-of-concept (POC) activities, technical evaluations, and pilot implementations for new technologies and solutions.

• Act as a technical lead on assigned initiatives, driving projects from requirements gathering through implementation and operational transition.

• Identify process inefficiencies and proactively recommend automation-driven solutions that improve operational effectiveness.

• Evaluate infrastructure performance, reliability, and scalability, and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.

• Ensure infrastructure solutions comply with OCC security, regulatory, governance, and operational standards.

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineers and project teams.

• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex infrastructure, automation, and platform-related issues.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• No direct people management responsibilities, but expected to provide technical leadership, peer mentoring, and project guidance to a small group (2-4) of engineers or specialists.

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

Professional Experience:

• 10+ years of infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, automation engineering, or related experience with increasing technical responsibility

• Platform Skills: Strong experience supporting Windows and/or Linux server environments, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise platform technologies.

• Solution Design: Demonstrated ability to independently design, implement, and operationalize scalable infrastructure and automation solutions.

• Automation Mindset: Proven track record of identifying automation opportunities and driving measurable operational improvements.

• Collaboration: Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work effectively across multiple technical disciplines and organization