Senior Automation Engineer

Senior Automation Engineer

Location:

Seattle, WA Duration:
Contract Visa: GC or Citizen only or H1 where there is 2 years validity.

• 12+ years experience working in Operations, Engineering, Dev Ops, or Site Reliability in a medium to large company.
• Can describe specific tools and automation created for CI, CD, QA, QC, deployment, testing, or management
• Experience creating Puppet modules, Chef cookbooks, or Ansible playbooks from scratch
• Experience with automated test frameworks/tools such as Test Kitchen, Server Spec, TestNG, Jenkins, Gatling, etc.
• Fluency in scripting languages like Python, Ruby, and Bash
• Have created test or automation scripts which interact with REST APIs or SOAP interfaces utilizing JSON or XML
• Have created automation using APIs from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Strong preference to Azure experience
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills

• Design and implement automation to build, test, certify and operate everything we do in Cloud Engineering / Enterprise Cloud Services
• Create tools for operations teams to use
• Remove and replace hands-on processes
• Perform needs discovery for tools and Infrastructure. Identify and recommend new tools that will automate/streamline existing tools and processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of developers, QA and operations to accomplish objectives of consistent strategy for automation across teams

• Hard working lazy person, have automated your pet feeder
• Enjoy owning a solution delivery, and enjoy giving it away even more
• Intolerant of "that can't be automated" input. You know how to win; you know how to transform
• You are self-driven, willing and able to take complete ownership of initiatives and make pragmatic technical decisions. You are constantly looking for ways to improve and automate your efforts
• A great collaborator whom strong developers, engineers, and architects on the teams want to work with