Cloud Orchestration​/Automation Engineer

Overview

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.

With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.

Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:

• Application Development
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Business/Systems Analysis
• Data warehouse & Business Intelligence
• Infrastructure & Network Services
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Security & Privacy

Specialties

• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)

On behalf of our client, Procom Services is searching for a Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer for a contract opportunity in Dallas, TX.

Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer
Job Details

Qualified candidates will be responsible for developing automation/orchestration within a private cloud environment. The candidate will also work with development teams to integrate with external systems to close the loop on a fully automated dev-to-production release cycle. This position requires a dynamic and enthusiastic individual who enjoys working in fast-paced environments. The ideal candidate works well with independent tactical assignments while collaborating with the broader team to scope to strategic goals.

This position is not a direct coder role, rather an operations focus to delivering virtual infrastructure programmatically within a VMWare vRealize Automation framework.

• Develop automation/orchestration within a private cloud environment.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate with external systems to enable a fully automated dev-to-production release cycle.
• Operate in fast-paced environments with independent tactical assignments and collaborate toward strategic goals.
• Deliver virtual infrastructure programmatically within a VMware vRealize Automation framework (not a direct coding role).

• Strong innovative and analytical ability with extensive systems implementation experience
• Team player with excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to operationalize and support what you build
• Fully competent to work under general direction on complex projects; direct assignments to deliver
• May require scheduled and unscheduled off-hours work (on-call duties)
• Strong systems integration and deployment skills
• Experience with scripting languages such as Power Shell, VB, JavaScript, Python, and Linux shell scripting
• Strong understanding of error handling, debugging, and conflict resolution
• Experience with Data Center/Server automation technologies such as VMware vRealize Automation & vRealize Orchestrator or similar enterprise solutions
• Understanding of full Virtual Machine lifecycle management from provisioning to decommissioning

• Experience with VMWare vRealize Automation 7.x+ and vRealize Orchestrator 6.x+
• Experience with vSphere 5.5 & 6.x Administration
• Experience with distributed automation/orchestration architectures
• Experience with automating/integrating to an API – REST and/or CLI methods, XMLRPC, SOAP, WEBDAV, SSH
• Experience with JSON and/or XML
• AWS EC2 – integration with EC2 API's
• Experience with automating deployments in VMware NSX 6.x
• Experience in a Dev Ops environment strongly desired
• Demonstrated experience in documenting and articulating complex system designs
• Experience with load balancers such as F5 Big-IP LTM and GTM
• Functional LINUX and Windows Administration skills
• Experience with container technologies – Docker, Docker Swarm, Kurbernetes
• Experience with continuous integration/deployment technologies – Jenkins, Team City
• Experience with configuration management technologies – Chef, Puppet, Vagrant, Ansible
• Experience with Cloud Foundry or cloud native apps a plus
• Experience with managing, deploying, or integrating with Open Stack
• Software development experience a plus
• Experience working in an AGILE methodology

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline

ASAP

Assignment Length

11+ months

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