senior software engineer

ob Description

- Responsible for the setup, configuration, and management of non-production and production platforms for automation

- Lead the development and coordinate with other Ops Leads to enable Automation. Collect automation requests and guide DevOps and Automation Engineers to develop the automation playbook according to the proper coding standard

- Migration and deployment of the playbook to operationalize automation use cases to improve productivity

- Lead the design and implementation of DevOps and automation solutions for the project

- Understand the automation specifics and concept in day-to-day service delivery and operations in IT Managed Services.

- Build and maintain an automation playbook using some of these automation technologies, such as Ansible, Python, PowerShell, Chef (Ruby) and Terraform (HCL), Groovy, JavaScript, and other scripting languages.

- Operationalize automation development to improve productivity.

- Code or script for automated testing, as well as carry out automated testing procedures in testing and production environments.

- Code control and versioning of Infra-as-code (IaC) playbook.

- Manage the setup of the DevOps platform and deployment of the automation use cases.

- Manage and operate the Platforms [Ansible, Terraform, and Gitlab] and maintain operational SLA.

- Lead DevOps engineer to develop automation use cases using any of these platforms (Ansible, Chef, and Terraform).

- Good to know integration with tools such as ITSM and so on.

- Provide presales solution support for the development of an automation solution.

Qualifications

Degree / Diploma in Computer Science / IT-related and hands-on experience to develop IaC code using one or more of the scripting languages (e.g. Ansible, Python, Chef (Ruby), Terraform (HCL), Groovy, Powershell, bash)

Experience

- 6+ years of experience in IaC code development for automation related to service delivery/operation

- Very good hands-on experience in Ansible, Terraform, and Chef Platform setup, configuration, and management

- Experience in code versioning, CI/CD, and automated testing

- Experience in DevOps platform setup and configuration

- Experience in CI/CD Pipeline development and deployment

Technical / Professional Skills

- Hands-on experience in cloud DevOps is advantageous

- Strong background in Linux/Unix/Windows Administration

- Experience in automation, configuration, and compliance management using either Puppet, Chef, or Ansible

- Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and scripting languages

- Strong experience in PostgreSQL, MS SQL, and MySQL

- In particular, sound and hands-on experience with some of the scripting languages (Python, Ansible, JavaScript, Perl, and/or Groovy)

- Experience with source code and version control

- Some knowledge in developing a playbook using the RPA tool

Non-Technical / Soft Skills

- Good problem-solving skills

- Passion for programming and automation, and actively look for opportunities to develop tools to streamline and simplify the development and delivery process.

- Good understanding of systems, networking, and development tools

- Familiarity with the software development lifecycle

- Self-motivated and have attention to detail