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Job Description
Role: Linux Automation/Application Engineer
Must have a passion for automation and infrastructure development and will be responsible for designing developing and implementing software solutions and automation workflows for our IT infrastructure and operations.
Will work closely with other crossfunctional teams to automate workflows improve server OS deployments and provisioning processes using automation and develop containerized applications using the tools such as OpenShift Kubernetes Podman and Docker.
Need to leverage web frameworks like Flask or Django to provide fullfeatured RESTful APIs that can be used by endusers and other applications. Will also be responsible for handson application debugging troubleshooting and problem remediation with automation workflows.
Contribute to the development of configuration management policies to further automate and streamline operations and contribute to opensource tool builds used on Linux servers.
Budget: up to $14500.00/M (may vary according to experience)
Level: Senior (at least 9 years of related professional experience required)
Contract period: 1yr
Work Location: Austin TX (must be able to work onsite not negotiable)
Responsibilities
- Design develop and implement software solutions and automation workflows for IT infrastructure and operations
- Based upon requirements independently design and develop bestpractice code that enables integration and administration of diverse applications with a focus on process automation
- Deploy productionready code using industrystandard testing and deployment processes such as unit/acceptance tests testing environments and CI/CD processes
- Leverage web frameworks (such as Flask or Django) to provide fullfeatured RESTful APIs that can be used by endusers and other applications
- Document and support automation services and continue to build on that automation framework; make it responsive make it selfhealing and incorporate AI and make it purely datadriven
- Improving and refining server OS deployments and provisioning processes using automation
- Design implement and support IT applications such as CMDB ELK stack GraphQL and other tools such as Grafana InfluxDB MariaDB PostgreSQL
- Contribute to configuration management policy development to further automate and streamline operations
- Contribute to opensource tool builds used on Linux servers
- Handson application debugging troubleshooting and problem remediation with automation workflows
- Build tools and implement automated flow to integrate seamlessly into our job scheduling system including regression and continuous integration systems
- Work with other crossfunctional teams to automate workflows implement dashboards and monitoring systems and support engineering groups
- Develop containerized applications using tools such as OpenShift/Kubernetes/Podman/Docker and champion the adoption of microservices and containerization best practices for automating IT processes
- Closely collaborate with IT and internal customer teams to understand requirements and develop new tools/applications
- Continuously evaluate and improve best practices for IT process automation
- Responsible for contributing and fully focused on executing project plans defined by the IT Team
Qualifications
Must have
- 7 years of experience in IT automation engineering
- Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python Ruby or Java Significant experience with development best practices: source control pull requests code reviews
- Experience with producing productionready code using testing and deployment bestpractices
- Experience working with and developing APIs (Flask Django Sanic or similar)
- Experience with CI/CD tools and software testing frameworks
- Knowledge of building configuring monitoring and supporting opensource tools and application stacks on Linux
- Experience with most Linux operating system commands and utilities
- Experience working with Docker or Podman Kubernetes and/or Openshift
Nice to have
- preferably Python and shell scripting
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field
- Significant experience designing and developing enterprisescale software solutions working with customers and stakeholder requirements
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible Puppet or CFEngine
- Commitment to continually improving services and automated processes to meet the needs of customers and colleagues good to have
- Strong problemsolving and analytical skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Selfstarter with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Experience working with data analytics tools (CMDB ELK stack GraphQL Grafana) and databases (InfluxDB MariaDB PostgreSQL)
KUBERNETES , DESIGNING , POSTGRESQL , ANSIBLE , LINUX , CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT , MARIADB , CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION , RUBY , RESTFUL APIS , PROVISIONING , TROUBLESHOOTING , CI/CD , IT INFRASTRUCTURE , DOCKER , LINUX SERVERS , PYTHON , DJANGO , IT APPLICATIONS , WORKFLOWS , FLASK , AUTOMATION , DEBUGGING
Employment Type
Full Time
