Lab Automation Engineer

PAY: $68-73/hour W2. Our company offers our consultants a suite of benefits after a qualification period including health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance. This is a fully onsite role in Santa Clara, CA; some remote work may be possible at the manager’s discretion.

W2 Candidates only.

• Implementation and management of Lab Automation utilizing Spirent Velocity platform/framework using Python 3.6 and higher.
• Build Virtual machines in VMware ESXi environment using tools like Ansible.
• Maintain and expand back-end REST API calls using FastAPI and PonyORM.
• Training and assisting users with lab systems, tools and processes.
• Building software libraries that interact with many common engineering/IT services such as LDAP/Active Directory, JIRA, GCP, AWS, GMail suite, DNS, Salesforce, Services
  
  NOW, VMware SDK, and others.
• Ability to develop tools within a virtual environment as well as within a task queue system such as Celery and Rabbit
  
  MQ.
• Managing code using git and the repository Git Lab as well as complying with security concerns when managing a company's proprietary intellectual property.
• UI/UX and CLI development that allows for control and reporting of new and existing tools using both backend APIs as well as SSO authentication.
• Interaction with Docker containers, GCP, Kubernetes, and AWS and other cloud systems to deploy and maintain back-end services.
• Experience with both a waterfall and agile development environment for developing, sustaining, testing, and supporting new and existing services.
• Must be willing to create functional specifications and documentation for new features and tools as they are developed.

• BS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• 5-10 years’ experience working as a tools and automation software engineer.
• Prefer candidates with experience in a support or engineering network lab environment.
• Experience with Spirent Velocity lab automation platform a plus.
• Knowledge of UI/UX development and frameworks for use in developing tools to interface with VMware, Windows, and Unix systems.
• Experience managing CENTOS, Ubuntu, or other Linux distributions. Windows and VMware administration experience is a plus.
• Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS and Azure cloud deployments and tools.
• Scripting and automation skills, emphasis on Python 2.7 and Python 3.6+.
• Knowledge of common network protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, Dynamic Routing Protocols, VLAN, SSH/SCP/SFTP, iSCSI, DNS, NFS, LDAP, SIFS, SMTP, SNMP.
• Experience with TCP Replay, IXIA, Breaking Point, Spirent Test Center, and Spirent Avalanche a plus.
• Experience in UI frameworks like Angular/React.
• Experience in any Iaac tools.

The Fountain Group is a nationwide staffing firm with over 80 Fortune 100-500 clients. Since 2001, TFG has maintained a consistent standard of excellence, and our work is broadly recognized every year through numerous industry performance awards.
Our success is a team effort.

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The Fountain Group

3407 W Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Tampa, FL 33607

We work in Life Sciences, Clinical, Engineering, IT, and more. Above all, we specialize in people.