Automation Engineer

About the job

Team members for the Data Center Consolidation effort must have experience with at least the following:

· Automation of infrastructure delivery with configuration orchestration and management solutions (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Terraform).

· Understanding of coding practices and developing in a preferred scripting language (e.g. PowerShell, Python, UNIX Shell Scripting).

· Experience with Operating System hardening practices and methodologies for templating deployments from a set of standardized images.

· Linux and Windows systems engineering principles.

· Java application server (e.g. JBOSS EAP, Tomcat) implementation.

· Compute virtualization for both in-house developed and commercial off-the-shelf software leveraging VMware’s technology stack and converged storage solutions utilizing Pure Storage.

Ideally, they will have experience with one or more of the following as well:

· Middleware solutions (e.g. IBM MQ, Kafka, Confluent).

· DevOps principles and CI/CD solutions (e.g. GitLab, Jenkins).

· Software engineering with an emphasis on Java software development.

· Containerization of applications, preferably with an emphasis on Kubernetes, specifically OpenShift.

· Implementation of service catalog automation for delivery of infrastructure services.

Incident triage including scope determination, impact assessment, and service restoration.