# Automation & Tools Engineer

About the Role We’re looking for an experienced Senior Automation and Tools Engineer to help us scale our platform with reliability, observability, and operational excellence at the core. You’ll partner with engineers and data scientists to build, automate, and maintain the infrastructure that powers our core platform-including data pipelines, ML workloads, and real-time analytics systems. This is a hands-on, high-impact role with visibility across the stack and the opportunity to shape the future of our infrastructure and operations. Key Responsibilities Work closely with SREs and developers to automate and control datacenter and cloud-based infrastructure, with a focus on build and deployment systems, as well as configuration management Improve system reliability and performance through automation, observability, and proactive capacity planning Create and configure tools for datacenter provisioning, configuration management, observability using standard and custom tools Improve developer experience by providing tools for self-service Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes (SLOs, runbooks, on-call rotations) Collaborate across engineering

- **Id**: 3845984
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/alembic-automation-tools-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T20:56:29Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T15:52:18Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2963
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Decision Intelligence, Marketing Analytics & Attribution

## Company

- **Id**: 669348
- **Name**: Alembic
- **Domain**: alembic.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/alembic>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 185000
- **Max**: 205000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 205000

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Kustomize** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **Incident Management** — Optional: yes
- **SOC 2** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T00:47:30Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 60
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.602
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 205000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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