Automation Developer

Job Description  

As a member of Automation Engineering team, you will work on producing mission-critical platforms, tools, and processes that will ensure highest levels of availability and reliability of all our applications. We need creative and innovative problem solvers who can partner with our Application development teams to make their services more useable. Our Automation Engineering team is furnished with a standout opportunity to build tools, frameworks, and cloud platforms that will support our company's growth over the next decade. If you are a self-starter and jump on new ideas to make the platform more stable, secure and feature rich, this is your new career. 
 
Your Responsibilities 

• Participate and contribute to Architecture for Distributed Systems Automation 

• Write automation code for provisioning and operating infrastructure at massive scale 

• Work with development teams to make sure the applications is production ready, scalable and reliable from the grounds up 

• Identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for code deployment, management and visibility of application services 

• Develop tools and framework to automate operational tasks, deployment of machines, services, applications 

• Establish end-to-end monitoring and alerting on all critical components of the application 

• Participate in the on-call rotation supporting the platform and or the production application 

• Directs root cause analysis of critical business and production issues 

• Develop and mentor other Automation Engineers on standard methodology from Infra orchestration and troubleshooting application service in production 

• Engineering team in design reviews and work cross-functionally with Engineering teams on operational Represent Automation readiness 

Your Experience 

• Expertise in configuration management with a framework such as Salt, Ansible or Terraform. Ansible background preferred. 

• Experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or infrastructure engineering 

• Expertise in any public cloud computing and its related services 

• Strong experience with Linux or Network 

• Proficiency with a programming language like Python and shell scripting to automate tasks 

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline, GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory 

• Deep knowledge of AWS, Azure  

• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex distributed systems handling high volume transactions 

• Strong fundamentals in HTTP including HTTP headers and web servers 

• BS or MS in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent professional experience 

• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, communication, and teamwork skills 

• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and rally support 

• Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive 

• Passion for automation and monitoring instrumentation in the code 

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a team 

• Passionate to learn, understand, and dissect new technology stack quickly on own 

• Overall hands-on development experience of 8 to 10 years