Automation Build Engineer

Top Skills: ** Ansible; ** Python; ** Systems Engineering / Infrastructure understanding.
**Must have excellent communication skills and work well independently – self-motivated but also able to work collaboratively; curious, desire to learn and become part of the team.
Position Description The Automation Build Engineer team is looking for a hands-on subject matter expert to provide support for development and operation activities across the enterprise.
In this role, you will be responsible in driving out automation capabilities for the full life cycle of infrastructure technologies hosted in the private and public cloud spaces.
You’ll work with customers, developers, architects, and operations teams to troubleshoot and solve complex technical issues in a timely manner.
Job Responsibilities Developing automation capabilities utilizing Ansible, Python, and Gitlab tools to help drive out updates to the internal build portal.
Participate in proof of concepts to assist in defining technology direction and enabling business strategy.
Automation of operational tasks.
Identify and contribute to automation activities.
Implement automation that will support regular operational activities - patching, health checks, application operational tasks etc.
Enhance the Private Cloud infrastructure to establish self-service capabilities through automation to application teams and owners.
Develop and maintain Ally certified EC2 AMIs for the enterprise.
Assist in developing the roadmap for EC2 AMIs that application teams can utilize.
Provides technical expertise in the establishment and implementation of standards and guidelines that guide the design of technology solutions including architecting and implementing solutions requiring integration of multiple platforms, operating systems, and applications across the enterprise.
Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and/or 3+ years in a technical role or equivalent 3+ Years Linux, Windows, Networking, and/ or Storage expert.
Hands-on experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon AWS Cloud products Strong DevOps/ CI/CD process architecture/engineering.
Engineering and architecting enterprise grade solutions for hardware and Software issues.
Familiar with database, middleware technologies Network familiarity as well as general application delivery and routing concepts.
Strong understanding of load-balancing, DNS, and networking expertise.
Red Hat, AWS, Azure, Google, or IBM Cloud Certified Architect certification.
Build and development technologies like Maven and Jenkins.
Automation and management technologies like Puppet, Chef, or Ansible by Red Hat.
Version control technologies like Bitbucket and Git (GitHub or GitLab).
Monitoring (APM) technologies such as AppDynamics, New Relic, or Dynatrace.