Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer

About the role

Rockwell Automation is looking for a Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer to join its Platform Automation Center of Excellence (PACE) team in Mexico City. The role reports to the Director of IT Platform Engineering and suits a hands-on engineer with a strong network engineering background who wants to expand into infrastructure as code, workflow automation, CI/CD and programming. It is a hybrid position.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain automation workflows for provisioning, configuration and lifecycle management of network devices, servers and cloud infrastructure.
• Build and maintain reusable infrastructure-as-code templates and playbooks with tools such as Ansible, Terraform and Python.
• Develop and run CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure changes, including automated testing, validation and deployment.
• Work with network, cloud and security teams to turn manual processes into repeatable, version-controlled automation.
• Help build self-service automation and internal platform tooling, and integrate workflow automation tools (e.g. BlinkOps).
• Add configuration compliance checks, drift detection and automated remediation to provisioning pipelines.
• Maintain source-of-truth data in tools such as NetBox and explore AI-assisted automation techniques.
• Document processes and architecture decisions, take part in Agile ceremonies and stay current with automation trends.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Preferred: 5+ years in network engineering, infrastructure automation or a related field.
• Preferred: degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
• Preferred: hands-on experience with routing, switching, firewalls and wireless (Cisco, Palo Alto or similar).
• Preferred: advanced English proficiency.
• No visa sponsorship offered for this opening.

Required skills

• Python and at least one infrastructure-as-code tool (Ansible, Terraform or similar)
• CI/CD pipeline experience (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar)
• Git and code review workflows
• API-driven automation (REST, NETCONF, RESTCONF)
• Workflow orchestration and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus or similar)
• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and hybrid environments

What we offer

• Medical and major medical insurance, food vouchers and other benefits (details shared by the recruiter).
• Ongoing development opportunities.
• Hybrid work: at least three days per week in the office unless there is a business reason to be out of the office.