Lead Automation Engineer
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Job Description
Responsible for the technical design, deployment, monitoring and ongoing support and maintenance of a diverse set of cloud technologies. The role is a technical, hands-on opportunity with a heavy focus on automation, resilient design and deployment of cloud ready systems and services. This role collaborates with Product teams internal and external to IS to provide world class products and services in support of our application development community, and our business as whole. This is a 'DevOps'position, responsible for the full-stack engineering and support of products that support our hybrid cloud capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Partners with key stakeholders as a platform champion for cloud-native systems, and coaches on how to use platform capabilities effectively through appropriate venues.
- Drives continual improvement of the IaaS product and capabilities through internal user groups and external market research.
- Builds, delivers, and maintains modern cloud platforms that support Agile teams.
- Collaborate/Communicate efforts and align development efforts with planned Roadmaps
- Provide system support as part of a support rotation with other team members
- Perform root cause analysis, alternate solution evaluation
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related field
- 1+ years of experience in Team Lead, or related field
- 4+ years of experience in application or platform development, consulting, or related field
Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we’d also look for:
- Ability to visualize and document architecture/design topology
- Understanding of tools such as Git/Chef/Ansible/Terraform/Vault/Shell
- Understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure engineering concepts
- General understanding/expertise with Security
- Past experience of Cassandra, Gemfire will be a plus
- Knowledge of emerging trends, ability to recommend solutions and define future state architecture #LI-BG1
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