WSP USA Inc. is establishing a new Automation Center of Excellence and seeks an IT Automation Architect to define, build, and scale this strategic function. You will blend deep technical engineering expertise with architectural thinking, focused on automating IT processes, systems, and operational workflows across the global enterprise.
What You'll Do
- Define enterprise automation architecture, including frameworks, standards, guardrails, reusable patterns, and reference designs.
- Establish a unified automation ecosystem across all IT functions aligned to the CoE’s vision.
- Develop technical roadmaps for automation platforms, CI/CD practices, IaC frameworks, integration patterns, and event-driven automation.
- Contribute to building and maturing WSP’s Automation CoE operating model.
- Partner with IT teams to identify automation opportunities that improve reliability, reduce manual effort, and enhance service delivery.
- Drive adoption of standard toolsets, coding practices, design reviews, and automation quality checks.
- Architect automation solutions across IT domains including cloud provisioning, network and security operations, identity and access workflows, endpoint automation, ITSM fulfillment, observability, and automated remediation.
- Develop reusable modules, IaC templates, pipelines, orchestration logic, API integrations, and automation libraries.
- Implement automation using modern toolsets like Terraform, Bicep/ARM, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, GitHub/GitLab pipelines, ServiceNow, and Azure Automation.
- Ensure automations are secure, auditable, observable, and scalable.
- Define guardrails that enable autonomy while protecting security and compliance.
- Embed IAM, secret management, least privilege, and auditability requirements into automation patterns.
- Establish version control practices, pipeline controls, code reviews, and lifecycle governance.
- Work closely with Infrastructure, Cloud, Network, Cybersecurity, EUC, and Operations teams to uplift automation capability.
- Lead architecture reviews, automation workshops, and design sessions.
- Mentor engineers and promote an automation-first culture across IT.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 8–10+ years of hands-on engineering and automation experience in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Strong architecture experience with automation platforms, IaC frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and workflow orchestration.
- Proficiency with automation tools such as Terraform, Bicep/ARM, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, GitHub/GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, and event-driven automation services.
- Experience implementing governance, standards, code quality controls, and secure automation practices.
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (Azure preferred), networks, identity systems, and infrastructure services.
- Experience contributing to an Automation CoE, platform engineering team, or similar strategic function.
- Strong documentation, diagramming, and architectural storytelling abilities.
- Comfortable working collaboratively across a large, globally distributed enterprise IT environment.
Technical Stack
- Terraform
- Bicep/ARM
- Ansible
- PowerShell
- Python
- GitHub/GitLab CI
- Azure DevOps
- ServiceNow
- Azure Automation
Team & Environment
You will be part of a new Automation Center of Excellence (CoE) within the global IT organization.
WSP fosters a culture centered on purpose, growth, and opportunity. We are ambitious, passionate, and innovative world shapers—pathfinders and impact makers.
