Automation Engineer

Job Purpose

Responsibilities

• Building and maintain tools and solutions for our operations platform, ensuring that we meet our customer service standards and reduce errors
• Actively troubleshoot any issues that arise during testing and production
• Update existing processes and design new processes as needed to optimize performance
• Work with the customers to understand their infrastructure automation solution requirements
• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Actively participate in or own continuous improvement projects driven by automation
• Any other activities as directed by management
• Work closely with the other team members to improve existing projects.
• Create quality measurements to track improvement in projects.
• Provide technical analysis, resolve problems, and propose solutions in a 24/7 production environment
• Participate in an on-call rotation
  

Knowledge And Experience

• 3+ years functional experience working as a Automation Engineer
• Prior experience with software development, infrastructure development, or development and operations
• Strong experience with Microsoft Windows Server and Linux Administration
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or PowerShell
• Experience in architecting an automation framework
• Proficiency in Configuration Management, CI, and automation tools such as - Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar
• Experience with Agile methods (Scrum/Kanban) to organize project deliverables, to track and to report progress (Jira)
• Experience with git, git repo services (BitBucket, GitHub), and branching strategies
• Experience with open-source technologies and cloud services (AWS/Azure)
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Splunk, Nagios, BigPanda, PagerDuty)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience with automation of business continuity/disaster recovery
• Knowledge of and exposure to container technology and orchestration is a plus.
• Experience interacting with REST APIs (GET/POST requests), webhooks, and API client tools (Postman)
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Process-oriented with great documentation skills (Confluence)
• Experience with data structures/formats such as XML, JSON, YAML, and HCL
  

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Rundeck and/or Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler
• Experience with BigPanda
• Experience with PagerDuty
• Experience with AI Ops