Job Description:

• The Lead Systems Engineer on the Enterprise Production Services (EPS) Automation team is responsible for providing technical expertise developing automation solutions across IT including Cloud and On-Prem.
• The Lead Engineer will be acting as a hands-on technical lead for the team’s initiatives, and be expected to contribute to architectural designs, perform code reviews and actively develop software as needed.
• This role supports key project driven initiatives, as well as operational tasks to maintain the integrity of our infrastructure footprint

Responsibilities:

• Experience and ability to implement solution using automation technologies and tools from requirements to deliver business value.
• Experience in developing automation solutions and capabilities for infrastructure services to increase operational efficiencies.
• Ability to design automation workflow for complex manual processes.
• Work closely with automation platform architects and infrastructure teams to develop solutions and integrations to other key systems within the automation platform.
• Contributes to and supports the corporate adoption of the DevOps methodology and Agile project management.
• Maintain stability of the automation environment including scheduling and execution of system maintenance, release updates, upgrades, and/or new technology deployments.
• Contribute towards continual service improvement activities related to the administration of cloud services.
• Experience working in disaster recovery activities for both cloud and on-prem footprint.
• Basic knowledge about Machine learning techniques and models (Decision Tree, Time Series analysis)
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience
• Expertise in Software development using Python or Java or equivalent expertise in infrastructure automation
• Hands on experience designing and building solutions utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, KMS, Lambda, IAM, Kinesis, ECS.
• In-depth hands-on experience with Cloud methodologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), automation, orchestration.
• Experience managing and working with configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible)
• Knowledge of source code and revision control systems, along with CI/CD tools like Git and Jenkins
• Basic experience with any modeling software like (R, Gunicorn)
• Knowledge of one or more scripting languages like JavaScript, PHP, Bash, Perl for automation