Linux Automation Application Engineer job vacancy

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Job Title: Linux Automation/Application Engineer

Location: San Jose, California or Austin Texas (Hybrid-3 Days/Week)

Duration: 6+ months (Possible Extension-Long Term Project)

Rate Range:$70-$75/hr on w2

Description

Seeking an experienced and highly motivated software developer to join our IT organization.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for automation and infrastructure development and will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing software solutions and automation workflows for our IT infrastructure and operations.
As a member of the IT organization, you will work closely with other cross-functional teams to automate workflows, improve server OS deployments and provisioning processes using automation, and develop containerized applications using the tools such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, Podman, and Docker.
You will leverage web frameworks like Flask or Django to provide full-featured RESTful APIs that can be used by end-users and other applications.
In this role, you will also be responsible for hands-on application debugging, troubleshooting, and problem remediation with automation workflows.
You will contribute to the development of configuration management policies to further automate and streamline operations and contribute to open-source tool builds used on Linux servers.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop and implement software solutions and automation workflows for IT infrastructure and operations
Based upon requirements, independently design and develop best-practice code that enables integration and administration of diverse applications with a focus on process automation
Deploy production-ready code using industry-standard testing and deployment processes, such as unit/acceptance tests, testing environments and CI/CD processes
Leverage web frameworks (such as Flask or Django) to provide full-featured RESTful APIs that can be used by end-users and other applications
Improving and refining server OS deployments and provisioning processes using automation
Design, implement and support of IT applications, such as CMDB, ELK stack, GraphQL and other tools such as Grafana, InfluxDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL
Contribute to configuration management policy development to further automate and streamline operations
Contribute to open-source tool builds used on Linux servers
Hands-on application debugging, troubleshooting, and problem remediation with automation workflows
Develop containerized applications using tools such as OpenShift/Kubernetes/Podman/Docker and champion the adoption of microservices and containerization best practices for automating IT processes

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
7+ years of experience in IT automation engineering
Significant experience designing and developing enterprise-scale software solutions working with customers and stakeholder requirements
Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Ruby, or Java
Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or CFEngine
Significant experience with development best practices: source control, pull requests, code reviews
Experience with producing production-ready code using testing and deployment best-practices
Experience working with and developing APIs (Flask, Django, Sanic, or similar)
Experience with CI/CD tools and software testing frameworks
Knowledge of building, configuring, monitoring, and supporting open-source tools and application stacks on Linux
Experience with most Linux operating system commands and utilities

Nice To Have Skills:

Understanding of infrastructure components – storage, compute network, licenses, version control system and basic system administration skills
Knowledge of server provisioning with tools such as Redhat Satellite Server, Foreman, PXE, Kickstart
Knowledge of building, configuring, and administering Linux computer systems in an environment with hundreds or thousands of clients
Knowledge of Jira, Jira Project Management, Confluence, BitBucket
Familiarity with Virtualization environments and tools such as VMWare, vCenter, vCenter Orchestrator
ELK stack (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kabana), Splunk
Knowledge of internet protocols and services including TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, SSH, LDAP & AD
Cloud experience (AWS/Google Cloud/Azure)
Experience with containers / Kubernetes / OpenShift
Knowledge of EDA workflows