Senior Automation Engineer

Role & responsibilities

• Implementing and maintaining automation product and component solutions through software development, system configuration, and peer code reviews

  (75%)

• Stewarding the software and automation COE through automation product design review to ensure alignment to implementation intentions, reuse of existing components, and assessment of levels of effort

  (15%)

• Providing support, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for issues affecting automation that is currently in production

  (10%)

Preferred candidate profile

Education

• A bachelors degree in computer engineering, computer science, information technology, or another equivalent applicable STEM field.

Professional Experience

• 5 total years of professional working experience as an Automation, Cloud, DevOps, Software, or Systems engineer. This requirement can be met by combinations of experience in the specified IT engineering disciplines. The experience must encompass usage of the technologies listed in the Technology Skills requirement.

Technology Skills

• ADO YAML pipelines and/or GitHub Actions pipelines with GitHub Workflows for both CI and CD.
• API Management technology such as Azure APIM or MuleSoft CloudHub for managing, publishing, and securing API endpoints.
• Azure cloud application and infrastructure hosting technologies such as App Services, Cosmos DB, Data Factory, Function Apps, Key Vaults, and SQL DB.
• C#. and/or Python based software development of backend APIs and console applications.
• CI pipeline development for linting, unit testing, static security scanning (SAST), and building code artifacts.
• CD pipeline development for integration testing, dynamic security scanning (DAST), code artifact promotion, environment releases, and infrastructure as code (IaC) deployment.
• Centralized identity management using Active Directory and EntraID users and groups.
• Federated identity management and provisioning using OpenID Connect (OIDC)
• Git based source code control using GitFlow, GitHub Flow, and/or GitOps branching strategies.
• REST and SOAP API creation, consumption, and maintenance
• PowerBI data dashboarding, reporting, and visualization
• PowerShell and bash shell scripting and software development
• SQL Server RDBMS skills for both DDL and DML.
• ServiceNow Flow and Workflow developer experience.

What other the Preferred Experience, Skills, and Knowledge required?

Education

• A master’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, information technology, or another equivalent applicable STEM field.

Professional Experience

• Prior experience participating in a software COE

Technology Skills

• Configuration management using Ansible and Ansible Tower
• Distributed identity management using SailPoint for managing Active Directory and EntraID users and groups.
• Federated identity management using Okta as an OIDC provider
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and TFC via CD pipeline

Certifications

• ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA) and/or Certified Application Developer (CAD) certifications
• Azure AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals