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
• Datawarehouse & 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)
Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer
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.
Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer Mandatory Skills
REQUIRED SKILLS:
• Strong innovative and analytical ability with extensive systems implementation experience
• Must be a team player and have excellent written and oral communication skills
• Must have the ability to operationalize and support what you build
• Must be fully competent to work under general direction on complex projects. The candidate will be delegated direct assignments to deliver.
• May require scheduled and unscheduled off-hours work (on-call duties)
• Strong systems integration and deployment skills
• Expertise experience with scripting languages such as: Powershell, VB, JavaScript, Python, & Linux Shell Scripting
• Strong understanding of error handling, debugging, and conflict resolution
• Established experience with Data Center/Server automation technologies such as VMware vRealize Automation & vRealize Orchestration or similar enterprise solutions
• Understanding of full Virtual Machine lifecycle management from provisioning to decommissioning
The following skills are preferred:
• Experience with VMWare vRealize Automation 7.x + 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 DevOps 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, TeamCity
• 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 OpenStack
• Software development experience a plus
• Experience working in an AGILE methodology
EDUCATION:
• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline
Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer Start Date
ASAP
Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer Assignment Length
11+ months
