Senior Cloud Platform Infrastructure Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 16, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 12, 2026. Emerson scores A on the Alion truth index.
If you are a Cloud Platform Infrastructure Engineer professional looking for an opportunity to grow your career, this role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to innovative cloud-native solutions across Emerson. You will be based out of Austin, TX, and will work alongside a collaborative global team to design, build, and optimize infrastructure that enables Emerson’s digital transformation.
In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:
- Build, optimize, and manage cloud-native systems such as Kubernetes clusters and cloud resources
Support secure edge-to-cloud solutions for industrial devices, gateways, analytics services, and cloud applications.
Document, maintain, improve, and validate engineering artifacts and operational procedures.
- Build and improve CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows to support secure, reliable, and repeatable software delivery.
- Participate in agile development activities including planning, retrospectives, and continuous improvement
- Partner with cybersecurity, architecture, product, and software development teams to deliver scalable and secure cloud solutions.
- Document, maintain, improve, and validate engineering artifacts and operational procedures.
- Collaborate with global engineering teams to execute strategic platform initiatives.
Who You Are:
You consistently build and deliver solutions that exceed customer expectations. You readily adopt innovations to enhance work processes to manage complexity, you acquire data from diverse contributors and stakeholders to effectively navigate problems and actively cultivate innovation by encouraging the expression of diverse ideas and opinions. You seize new opportunities by taking constructive steps to overcome obstacles. You maintain progress and ensure work aligns with objectives. You foster collaboration to achieve common goals while relating comfortably across various levels, functions, cultures, and geography.
For This Role, You Will Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
- A minimum of five (5) years of experience with large-scale infrastructure systems in a production environment
- Proficiency in modern programming and scripting languages such as Go, Python, Bash, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or others.
- Proficiency with Kubernetes (cluster lifecycle, networking, upgrades) and containerization technologies like Docker.
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, including reusable modules, code review, environment promotion, and automated provisioning.
- Experience working with global teams within an Agile development framework.
Proficiency developing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Argo CD, or similar tools.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States - Sponsorship will not be provided for this role
Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now and in the future. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1 (including those with OPT or CPT), H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
Preferred Qualifications that Set You Apart:
- Advanced training in cloud services and configuration management (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Strong understanding of network architecture and security protocols.
- Experience optimizing performance and scalability in infrastructure systems.
- Knowledgeable in service discovery and load-balancing technologies.
- Experience with GitOps tools, such as Argo CD or Flux.
- Proficiency in DevSecOps CI/CD automation environments.
Familiarity with regulated or cybersecurity-sensitive environments, including industrial cybersecurity standards such as IEC 62443.
- Expertise in backup and disaster recovery strategies within a cloud setting.
- Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
Strong communication, documentation, analytical, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Our Culture & Commitment to You:
At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams, working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.
We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing and know that to do your best you must have flexible, competitive benefits plans to meet you and your family’s physical, mental, financial, and social needs. We provide, a variety of medical insurance plans, with dental and vision coverage, Employee Assistance Program, profit sharing retirement, tuition reimbursement, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more. Our culture prioritizes work-life balance and offers flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), vacation and holiday leave.