Location: Columbus, OH (3 days Onsite, 2 Days Remote)
Type: 6+ Months Contract to Hire
Contract - Only W2
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Automation Engineering Sr Job Profile Summary
The Automation Engineer Sr acts as a resource to decision, design, and lead on medium to large automation solutions within the infrastructure/operations tech spaces. Experience with both infrastructure and automation technologies is preferred, and a good candidate should be comfortable guiding efforts from initial idea through design, vetting, pitching, building, completion and metric reporting. This role has an expectation of both direct automation development skills and the soft skills to effectively communicate and mentor other infrastructure engineers in building out their own development knowledge. The ability to distinguish between automation needs and process needs and solution on both is integral for success in this position.
Automation Engineering Sr Job Skills and Requirements
Expertise in working with Ansible or demonstrated ability to quickly learn new programming languages
Documented skills in translating automation concepts to consistent, reliable scripts using an industry accepted scripting language (Ansible/Python preferred)
History of projects involving engineering design work, especially projects involving tailored solutions to meet specific infrastructure automation process needs
Able to recognize and identify enterprise affecting issues to inform both automation design and operations
Skilled in conceptualizing script structure and design to meet operational needs
Extensive development background, particularly for supporting, maintaining, and engineering infrastructure technology adjacent solutions
Familiarity with SCM and SDLC principles
Experience with version control best practices
Familiar with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies
Experience with containers and virtual environments preferred
Comfortable identifying, verifying, vetting, and testing hardware/software requirements for proposed automation and orchestrations solutions
Ability to guide and empower infrastructure engineers seeking to explore, identify and expand automated solutions developed within their team
Possesses a broad understanding of infrastructure devices, protocols, functionalities and operations.
Experience working with infrastructure standards at an enterprise level
Ability to lead confidentially and effectively when faced with new or unknown automation challenges
Frequently anticipates problems in both the automation and infrastructure spaces and analyzes ways to mitigate the risk
Familiarity with risk management and MRA processes preferred
Ability to write and execute test plans for Automation testing
Quantifies and articulates the business value and impact of advanced technical and non-technical information
Comfortable with conducting and understanding data analysis
Provides effective production support including accurate problem identification, ticket documentation and customer/vendor dialogue
Documents, presents, and executes medium-to large-scale projects with minimal supervision
Effectively able to communicate technical data both granularly and at a higher level
Previous experience in tracking work efforts through Kanban, Jira, ADO, or other story tracking development software
Is often consulted by peers and seen as the informal leader on tactical problems
Able to self-direct individual work effectively while maintaining cooperative attitude in conjunction with team and organization goals
Comfortable managing context switching between multiple efforts
Perform orchestration platform provisioning, administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting
Maintains current professional and technical skills
Coaches' users from other parts of the organization on company and industry patterns
Contact: smishra02@judge.com
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