Sr. Automation Consultant

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Automation Consultant will take a leadership role in delivering outcomes across a wide range of global clients. This will be accomplished by engaging with customer leadership to define priorities and outcomes for engagements, expanding the capabilities and offerings of the practice and delivering on consulting engagements in a leadership capacity. You'll develop strategies, design automation architectures, and lead development efforts while utilizing your excellent communication skills to provide leadership and guidance to clients and engineers.

Your consultative approach will help you evaluate client requirements, propose solutions, and achieve business objectives. You'll also mentor junior-level engineers and collaborate with sales account executives, technology partners, and client IT and business executives.

• Understand customer needs and design solutions that solve for their needs-short and long term

• Understand customer problems and develop new solutions that are most effective and differentiated from our competitors

• Use a strategic approach to managing customer interactions and data throughout the customer journey with a goal of higher business growth through better customer experiences

• Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions

• Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions
• Lead client automation projects with a focus on strategy, enablement, and execution
• Provide technical leadership during client engagements
• Define automation architectures and designs that are simple and effective
• Mentor and collaborate with peers to raise the bar for everyone, including yourself
• Drive continuous improvement within the practice through development, collaboration, and mentorship
• Contribute to the practice as a "librarian" of automation intellectual property

• You have a programmability-first mindset
• You excel at thoroughly documenting and communicating ideas to a broad audience
• Your attention to detail and code-craft is unparalleled
• You communicate and think in a structured manner
• You're comfortable engaging with clients, partners, peers, and anyone who has valuable input
• You have a heart of a teacher and a passion for enabling the success of others
• You have domain expertise across multiple areas such as software development, infrastructure, cloud, observability & data analytics, robotic process automation, etc.

Lead design and implementation of network infrastructure automation (provisioning, configuration, validation, and operational workflows).

• Networking:
  Enterprise routing/switching, multi-vendor (Cisco, Arista, Juniper)
• Infrastructure-as-Code:
  Net Box, Git/YAML, Jinja2 templates, version control
• Automation & Orchestration:
  Python (API automation, scripting), Ansible, Terraform, orchestration tools (Itential, Stack Storm, AWX)
• Integration & APIs: REST/Graph
  
  QL, secrets management (Vault/Cyber Ark), IPAM (Infoblox/Net Box), artifact repositories
• Testing & Validation:
  Robot Framework, pytest, pyATS; test-driven automation
• Dev Ops Practices: CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes/Open Shift), Git Ops, documentation-as-code, observability

• Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
• Multi-vendor abstraction and automation frameworks
• Secrets management and network security integration
• ITSM tools (Service Now, Jira, BMC)
• Pre/post-change validation automation

• Excellent documentation and knowledge-sharing skills
• Strong cross-team collaboration and communication
• Self-driven problem solver; comfortable with ambiguity
• Ability to convert business requirements into technical automation solutions

• Ability to perform concurrent tasks in complex environments under adjusting priorities
• Ability to communicate and modify approach, language, and style to different audiences
• Professional writing style and experience with demonstrable technical and business-related artifacts is required
• Collaborative, with the ability to manage conflicting interests and deal with ambiguity.
• Effective communication skills: capable of supporting presentations to convey concepts and solutions, writing effective emails, and discussing strategy with senior executives.
• Strong teamwork qualities: able to gain the trust of customers and collaborate effectively within the WWT team.
• Intellectually curious with a desire to understand constantly evolving technology solutions.
• Proactive, collaborative, with emotional intelligence, and the capacity to learn and synthesize new information.
• Adaptable, with the ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Self-directed, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands.
• You have extensive…