Senior Automation engineer

Location : Research Triangle Park, NC (Hybrid)

12 Months Contract

The primary role is to lead Automation effort of infrastructure provisioning, build and deploy activities for NC FAST applications. This position must demonstrate a solid understanding of AWS infrastructure and software release life cycle.
This position will be responsible for automating and performing tasks associated with the build and deploy processes for the NCFAST application by preparing and executing build scripts using Ansible,cloud formation etc. This position will provide hands-on Automation support to the release and Application development teams for the entire release management lifecycle across multiple applications as well as recommend process improvements keeping Agile and DevOps culture and practices in mind.

This position will also be responsible for supporting tasks and activities for the release/build team in the Architecture and Infrastructure Unit of the NCFAST program.
The position will work with IT management to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuous integration and Continuous deployment (CI/CD) of application changes. This position will interact with the architects, developers, deployment Team, and Database Administrators to ensure automation of various tasks.
This position is required to be on call for evenings and weekends as required to meet business needs.

Experience with automating OS and software patches and upgrades across multiple environments using automations tools like Ansible

Hands on Experience (like branching, merging, configuring, and administering) with BitBucket or GIT Source Code Management tool

Hands on experience in Automating build/deploy process including changes to database using tools like Ansible

Knowledge and experience in J2EE-specific application hosting, application tracing/debugging, and application deployment.

Experience with build and release activities for large number of teams

Hands on experience developing and managing CI/CD (DevOps) pipeline using tools like Teamcity, Jenkins, Ansible

Thorough knowledge/experience with Agile SDLC processes (Scrum, Kanban)

Strong knowledge and understanding of Amazon web Services and infrastructure