Automation Engineer, Contract Capabilities

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Job Summary:

The Automation Engineer improves operational efficiency, accelerating incident processes, managing issues, and optimizing collaboration in cybersecurity, network and infrastructure management services. Your role is to automate and increase manual tasks that requires time and resources swiftly to an automated system. The Automation Engineer role requires a unique skill set and knowledge to solve complex and challenges. You have automation technical skills and must be experienced in developing, and using automation technologies

Your Responsibilities:

• Design strategies and integrations: Design software solutions that address needs according to engineering team requirements (security, network, infrastructure, personnel, analysts, operations teams), optimised processes consideration to reduce human effort, develop plans for early remediation of security alerts.
• Operational efficiency improvement: Automate and orchestrate processes, integrate network, infrastructure & security tools. Create workflows and automate repetitive tasks.
• Testing & Implementation: Testing & Implementing automation flows, solution integration evaluation with existing systems, perform QA testing to ensure the effectiveness of developments.
• Research and trend exploration: Exploring relevant automation advancements and new software engineering tools (threats undergo rapid evolution, giving rise to novel technologies like AI). Investigate and evaluate new technologies and approaches to enhance organisational security.
• Collaboration & decision-making support: Use information collected in the automation system to support strategic decision-making and preventive measures planning, help centralise management, collaborate with engineering & security teams by supporting plan creation.

Factors of Complexity  

• Will require high level of IPC to keep up with evolving technology, understand complex technology dependency and working across a range of service offerings that may use a wide array of technologies and partners.
• Across multiple departments with different goals

Main Performance Metrics

• Technical development of main product & service launches within SLA
• Collaborative culture across the automation engineering team while meeting C&I goals
• Adopt technology best practices around technology & vendor evaluation and managing & maintenance of technology platforms.

The Essentials - You Will Have:

• 5+ years of experience in software development experience with skills in programming or scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, and Bash. using SOAR like tools.
• Understanding of cybersecurity principles, including threats, attack techniques, and defence measures.
• Experience in (not a must) - SIEM: Security Information Event Management/ TIP: Threat Intelligence Platform/ MISP: Malware information sharing platform / API: Application Programming Interface / ETL: Extraction, Transformation, Load data or Others.
• Experience in design and implement automation solutions.
• Communication skills and ability to collaborate with other professional teams.
• Understand internal or external customer needs.
• You will report to GLOBAL ENGINEERING MANAGER, CONTRACTS CAPABILITIES

What We Offer:

Our benefits package includes …

• Comprehensive mindfulness programmes with a premium membership to Calm
• Volunteer Paid Time off available after 6 months of employment for eligible employees
• Company volunteer and donation matching programme – Your volunteer hours or personal cash donations to an eligible charity can be matched with a charitable donation. 
• Employee Assistance Program 
• Personalised wellbeing programs through our OnTrack programme 
• On-demand digital course library for professional development

... and other local benefits!

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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