Automation Engineer

Adobe is a company that empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools. The Automation Engineer on the Ethos Platform Reliability team will organize maintenance activities for Kubernetes clusters and collaborate with internal teams to build automation that supports complex scheduling requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate complex releases, changes and feature deprecation among the multiple teams that deliver them, while communicating with our large body of internal clients
• Identify client needs and update release schedules to facilitate their needs
• Ideate, develop and deploy self-service, client oriented applications to aid with scheduling and reporting
• Write software that integrates multiple systems such as Git, JIRA, Slack to aid in fleet visibility and release orchestration
• Strive to reduce platform outages and increase velocity through process review, improvement and enforcement
• Work collaboratively with internal teams and internal clients to achieve the best outcomes in a challenging environment. Examples include scheduling high-risk work during sensitive periods like holidays or conferences
• Work directly with your senior manager in a medium sized, multi-layer organization to assist with automation, reporting and process optimization. You may be asked to act as your leader's delegate in some cases

Requirements:

• B.Sc. or higher in related field, or equivalent experience
• 5+ combined years of proven experience in release engineering, software engineering, site reliability engineering, program management, and/or configuration management
• An understanding of platform maintenance methodologies and experience coordinating planned work with clients
• Skills and passion for automating repetitive work using scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash) and familiarity with popular frameworks like Flask and React
• Fluency in the modern AI landscape, including use of tools such as Cursor, Co-Pilot and Claude
• Highly organized and able to balance multiple communication channels, schedules and meetings
• Strong written and oral skills
• A strong understanding and extensive experience with scrum terminology and processes
• Experience with cloud service providers: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerization, REST-based APIs, API Gateways and CI/CD systems
• A belief in process documentation and experience writing them against a technical landscape
• A schedule which allows you to occasionally meet between 7AM and 10AM pacific time, or 9AM and noon eastern time