Sr Tower Lead (Tools & Automation)

Job Summary

The Automation SME is responsible for designing, standardizing, and governing Day 0 and Day 1 automation capabilities across hybrid, multi‑cloud, and sovereign cloud environments.
The role ensures that security, compliance, regional sovereignty, and operational resilience are embedded by design using Policy as Code and automation frameworks.

The SME acts as a technical authority, defining automation patterns, enforcing guardrails, and enabling platform and application teams to consume compliant automation at scale.

--- ## Key Responsibilities

1. Day 0 Automation – Platform & Environment Readiness

• Design and implement Day 0 automation for:

• Cloud account/subscription landing zones

• Network topologies and segmentation

• Identity foundations (IAM, RBAC, ABAC)

• Logging, monitoring, and audit enablement

• Embed security and compliance controls by default, eliminating post‑deployment hardening.

• Define region‑specific and sovereign cloud baselines, including:

• Approved regions and services

• Mandatory encryption and key management

• Data residency and locality enforcement

--- 2. Day 1 Automation – Workload Onboarding

• Build Day 1 automation for:

Skill Requirements

• Strong expertise in:

• Terraform / Open Tofu

• Bicep / ARM

• CloudFormation

• Configuration and orchestration:

• Ansible / AWX

Other Requirements

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