Cloud Orchestration​/Automation Engineer

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.

With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.

Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:

• Application Development

• Project Management

• Quality Assurance

• Business/Systems Analysis

• Data warehouse & Business Intelligence

• Infrastructure & Network Services

• Risk Management & Compliance

• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

• Security & Privacy

Specialties
• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)

• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)

• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)

• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)

On behalf of our client, Procom Services is searching for a Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer for a contract opportunity in Dallas, TX.

Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer
Job Details

Qualified candidates will be responsible for developing automation/orchestration within a private cloud environment. The candidate will also work with development teams to integrate with external systems to close the loop on a fully automated dev-to-production release cycle. This position requires a dynamic and enthusiastic individual who enjoys working in fast-paced environments. The ideal candidate works well with independent tactical assignments while collaborating with the broader team to scope to strategic goals.

This position is not a direct coder role, rather an operations focus to delivering virtual infrastructure programmatically within a VMWare vRealize Automation framework.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Strong innovative and analytical ability with extensive systems implementation experience

• Must be a team player and have excellent written and oral communication skills

• Must have the ability to operationalize and support what you build

• Must be fully competent to work under general direction on complex projects. The candidate will be delegated direct assignments to deliver.

• May require scheduled and unscheduled off-hours work (on-call duties)

• Strong systems integration and deployment skills

• Expertise experience with scripting languages such as:
Powershell, VB, JavaScript, Python, & Linux Shell Scripting

• Strong understanding of error handling, debugging, and conflict resolution

• Established experience with Data Center/Server automation technologies such as VMware vRealize Automation & vRealize Orchestration or similar enterprise solutions

• Understanding of full Virtual Machine lifecycle management from provisioning to decommissioning

The following skills are preferred:

• Experience with VMWare vRealize Automation 7.x + vRealize Orchestrator 6.x+

• Experience with vSphere 5.5 & 6.x Administration

• Experience with distributed automation/orchestration architectures

• Experience with automating/integrating to an API – REST and/or CLI methods, XMLRPC, SOAP, WEBDAV, SSH

• Experience with JSON and/or XML

• AWS EC2 –integration with EC2 API's

• Experience with automating deployments in VMware NSX 6.x

• Experience in a Dev Ops environment strongly desired

• Demonstrated experience in documenting and articulating complex system designs

• Experience with load balancers such as F5 Big-IP LTM and GTM

• Functional LINUX and Windows Administration skills

• Experience with container technologies – Docker, Docker Swarm, Kurbernetes

• Experience with continuous integration/deployment technologies – Jenkins, Team City

• Experience with configuration management technologies – Chef, Puppet, Vagrant, Ansible

• Experience with Cloud Foundry or cloud native apps a plus

• Experience with managing, deploying, or integrating with Open Stack

• Software development experience a plus

• Experience working in an AGILE methodology

EDUCATION:

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline

ASAP

Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer
Assignment Length

11+ months

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