# AI-Enabled Infrastructure Automation Engineer

**Company**: Southern Company
**Location**: Atlanta
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

The AI-Enabled Infrastructure Automation Engineer designs, develops, and implements automation solutions to enhance the efficiency and reliability of Southern Company's IT infrastructure.

This role will focus on automating the provisioning and management of servers, storage, and networking across VMware and physical environments, improving efficiency, scalability, and reliability.

Responsibilities:

Configure, tune, and maintain our AI coding assistant stack (Claude Code, Copilot, or equivalents) providing our coders with consistent, high-quality output aligned to our standards.

Author and maintain rules files, system prompts, and context packages that teach the AI assistants our Terraform module conventions, Ansible role patterns, Git workflows, security and compliance guardrails.

Design and operate MCP servers as appropriate.

Build a shared, version-controlled library of prompts, agent workflows, and slash commands for the recurring tasks each department faces , module generation, legacy-to-IaC conversion, pull request review, runbook updates, and drift triage.

Automate provisioning and lifecycle management of VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, bare-metal servers, and other computing infrastructure

Develop scripts, workflows, and playbooks for storage provisioning, SAN/NAS automation, and backup integration

Automate network device configuration and monitoring using tools like Ansible, Python, or vendor APIs

Implement and manage configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef) for OS and middleware automation

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand diverse automation needs and advocate for unified solutions

Provide guidance and training to peers on effective branching strategies, versioning, and code review processes

Integrate automation workflows with ITSM and CMDB systems

Build and maintain automated patching, compliance, and reporting frameworks

Optimize infrastructure utilization and reduce manual intervention in operational tasks

Participate in departmental initiatives

Communicate progress, problems and best practices to management, leads and teammates

## Skills

### Required
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Git
- Python
- C#
- VMware
- Hyper-V
- Windows
- Linux
- Enterprise Storage Systems
- Enterprise Networking
- Scripting
- Automation Platforms
- Source Control Systems

### Nice to have
- Prior experience building internal developer platforms
- Hands-on MCP server development
- Experience in a regulated industry

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