Operations Automation Engineers

General Operation Automation Consultant – Dev Ops Automation Engineer

Operations Automation Consultant:
Actively participate in team activities such as suggesting improvements, recommending process improvements and conducting tool evaluations. Deliver specific solutions provided by teams across the organization. Document best practice with precise steps of how to get there in consultation with expert. Work with Solution Analyst and developers to ensure the software solution delivered confirms to best practice. The Associate Automation Consultant meets the following attributes:

• Working collaboratively with geographically spread teams to help automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployment and configuration.
• Build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test and production environments.
• Experience with configuration management tools
• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Knowledge of systems and IT operations
• Has good understanding in frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
• Has good collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders

Required Skills:

• 3-5 years of experience in one of object-oriented programming languages Java/Python/Go
• Hands on experience of one of Chef/Puppet/Ansible
• Hands on experience of working in one of the public clouds AWS/Azure/GCP
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience of using Terraform a plus
• Experience of using docker containers and Kubernetes a plus

Education:

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree, education-related coursework preferred
• Understanding of client specific business processes
• Experience in working with cross-cultural teams or individuals
• Experience in working with cross-functional teams
• General IT backend technology experience

Must Skill Set:

• Prior experience with automation
• Google cloud, azure or AWS experience
• Open stack experience good to have
• Experience with Ruby or python or terraform
• Should have programming background and experience
• Framework is Ruby based hence prior experience in Ruby can help ramp on this position quickly

Duration of assignment is 6 months with possibility of extension based on Business Need and performance. Bay area candidates can work remotely after first few weeks of ramping up but should portray ownership of their work and tasks. Virginia candidates will be required to go into the SAP office a couple of times during the week as the automation team sits in Reston, Virginia with flexibility to work from home on an as needed basis.

Interview:
Phone screen followed by screen share coding test and onsite interview or video screen based on location.