Automation Engineer

17 hours ago


Austin TX United States Crystal Equation Corporation Full time

Linux Automation/Application Engineer

Onsite, Austin TX

1 year contract

Summary:

Our company is seeking an experienced and highly motivated software developer to join our IT organization. The ideal candidate will 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.

As a member of the IT organization, you will work closely with other cross-functional 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. You will leverage web frameworks like Flask or Django to provide full-featured RESTful APIs that can be used by end-users and other applications. In this role, you will also be responsible for hands-on application debugging, troubleshooting, and problem remediation with automation workflows. You will contribute to the development of configuration management policies to further automate and streamline operations and contribute to open source tool builds used on Linux servers.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and collaborating with peers and internal customer teams to understand requirements and develop new tools/applications/APIs. You will be expected to continuously evaluate and improve best practices for IT process automation.

If you are passionate about automation and infrastructure development and want to work on cutting-edge technology products, our company is the place for you. Apply today and join our team of talented engineers and developers.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop and implement software solutions and automation workflows for IT infrastructure and operations
  • Based upon requirements, independently design and develop best-practice code that enable integration and administration of diverse applications with a focus on process automation
  • Deploy production-ready code using industry-standard 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 full-featured RESTful APIs that can be used by end-users and other applications
  • Document and support automation services – and continue to build on that automation framework; make it responsive, make it self-healing and incorporate AI and make it purely data driven
  • Improving and refining server OS deployments and provisioning processes using automation
  • Design, implement and support of 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 open source tool builds used on Linux servers
  • Hands-on 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 cross-functional 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 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 on project plans defined as by our IT team

Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of experience in IT automation engineering
  • Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Ruby, or Java [must have – preferably python and shell scripting]
  • Significant experience with development best practices: source control, pull requests, code reviews [must have]
  • Experience with producing production-ready code using testing and deployment best-practices [must have]
  • Experience working with and developing APIs (Flask, Django, Sanic, or similar) [must have]
  • Experience with CI/CD tools and software testing frameworks [must have]
  • Knowledge of building, configuring, monitoring, and supporting open source tools and application stacks on Linux [must have]
  • Experience with most Linux operating system commands and utilities [must have]
  • Experience working with Docker or Podman, Kubernates, and/or Openshift [must have]
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field [good to have]
  • Significant experience designing and developing enterprise-scale software solutions working wtith customers and stakeholder requirements [good to have]
  • Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or CFEngine [good to have]
  • Commitment to continually improving services and automated processes to meet the needs of customers and colleagues [good to have]
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills [good to have]
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills. [good to have]
  • Self-starter with the ability to work independently and as part of a team [good to have]
  • Experience working with data analytics tools (CMDB, ELK stack, GraphQL, Grafana) and databases (InfluxDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL) [good to have]

Includes paid holidays and 15 days of accrued PTO

Pay range is $55 - $60 per hour with full benefits available, including paid time off, medical/dental/vision/life insurance, 401K, parental leave, and more. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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