Senior Tooling and Automation Engineer

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Senior engineer building AI-assisted integrations across RMM, monitoring, backup, and ITSM platforms. Owning Jira Service Management, alerting, tooling standards, and customer rollouts for ITTConnect’s managed-services client.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain integrations between platforms using APIs, webhooks, and email
  • Write connecting code, skills, and apps with AI-assisted development tools
  • Own Jira Service Management configuration, including screens, workflows, custom ticket and request types, automations, and queues
  • Identify and reduce noise across the alerting cycle so only actionable alerts reach the team
  • Serve as the senior escalation point for tooling failures, broken integrations, misbehaving automation, authored scripts, and false-positive alerts
  • Set and enforce standards for tooling integrations and alerting
  • Work with platform administrators on changes inside their tools
  • Identify tooling gaps and lead build-or-buy decisions from business justification through evaluation and rollout
  • Ensure each customer's tooling is fully rolled out and tuned to their environment
  • Configure custom OS patching and observability alerting policies agreed with customers
  • Explain tooling to customers, including its function, installation, and environmental impact
  • Produce service level objective, utilization, and operational reporting for delivery leadership
  • Execute work within an ITIL-aligned change management framework
  • Document integrations, automations, and configuration for auditability and continuity

Requirements:

  • 12+ years of IT experience
  • 5+ years focused on tooling, automation, or systems integration in IT environments
  • Experience building and owning integrations rather than only using tools
  • MUST BE fluent in English
  • Experience as the first or only person responsible for a whole tooling stack
  • Fluency with AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude, Cursor, or Replit, with working code examples
  • Hands-on experience with REST APIs, webhooks, JSON, XML, and common authentication methods
  • Scripting and development capability in Python, PowerShell, or JavaScript
  • Working knowledge of Git for source control
  • Experience administering Jira Service Management or a comparable ITSM platform, including workflows, request types, and automations
  • Working knowledge of RMM, network monitoring, and backup tooling
  • Experience tuning alerting to reduce noise
  • Solid understanding of ITIL and change management
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across platforms, integrations, and automation
  • Clear, customer-facing communication style
  • Associate's or bachelor's degree in information technology or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience
  • Preferred: Direct experience with NinjaOne, Auvik, Bocada Cloud, or Jira Service Management
  • Preferred: Experience leading tool evaluations and vendor selection, including proof-of-concept work and business justification
  • Preferred: Familiarity with workflow-automation or iPaaS platforms