Systems Automation Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential. **Job Title:** Systems Automation Engineer **Location:** 100% Remote (U.S.) **Position Type:** Full-time, Direct W2 **Salary Range:** $100,000–$150,000 Annually **Experience Required:** 6+ years **Sponsorship:** U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position. **Job Summary:** We are seeking an Systems Automation Engineer with deep Terraform expertise to design, build, and maintain the infrastructure-as-code foundations that power our cloud and hybrid environments. This role focuses on creating reusable Terraform modules, hardening pipelines, enforcing policy-as-code, and standardizing infrastructure delivery across multiple teams and cloud providers. The ideal candidate brings strong software engineering discipline to infrastructure work, has shipped production-grade Terraform at scale, and understands the operational realities of managing thousands of resources across many environments and accounts. **Key Responsibilities** - Design, develop, and maintain modular, composable Terraform code that codifies the entire infrastructure estate across cloud accounts and environments. - Build a library of well-tested, reusable Terraform modules with clear interfaces, semantic versioning, and comprehensive documentation. - Implement Terraform automation pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Atlantis, Terraform Cloud, or Spacelift, with plan/apply gating, drift detection, and policy enforcement. - Define and enforce policy-as-code using Sentinel, Open Policy Agent (OPA), Conftest, or Checkov to prevent insecure or non-compliant infrastructure changes. - Manage Terraform state at scale with appropriate backend strategies, state locking, workspace organization, and disaster recovery patterns. - Drive multi-account, multi-region, and multi-cloud infrastructure provisioning strategies with clear isolation, naming, and tagging standards. - Implement infrastructure testing including unit tests with terraform-compliance, integration tests with Terratest, and policy tests across pull requests. - Collaborate with security, networking, and platform teams to embed guardrails directly into reusable modules and pipelines. - Standardize patterns for secrets management, identity federation, and least-privilege IAM through reusable Terraform abstractions. - Lead migrations from legacy, ClickOps, or non-IaC infrastructure into managed Terraform footprints with minimal disruption. - Drive cost optimization, tagging hygiene, and lifecycle management across the Terraform-managed estate. - Mentor engineering teams on Terraform best practices, anti-patterns, and pull-request review standards. - Maintain comprehensive runbooks, architecture diagrams, and onboarding materials for the infrastructure platform. - Stay current with Terraform, OpenTofu, and broader IaC ecosystem developments and recommend adoption where beneficial. **Required Qualifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. - Five or more years of experience in cloud infrastructure or DevOps engineering, with significant Terraform focus. - Deep, hands-on expertise authoring and maintaining production Terraform across at least one major cloud provider. - Strong experience designing reusable Terraform modules with clean APIs and version discipline. - Hands-on experience with Terraform state management, backends, and large-scale workspace organization. - Strong scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash. - Experience with CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure code and automated policy enforcement. - Solid understanding of cloud networking, identity,…