Automation Engineer

Kelly Services; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 91,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Kelly Services in Fort Worth, TX is seeking an Automation Engineer for a 6-month contract. The role involves leveraging cutting-edge tech to solve business problems, contributing from inception through transition, advocating agile and test-driven development, and building reusable components across front-end and back-end systems.

The ideal candidate has extensive SDLC experience, strong Python and FastAPI skills, and solid RESTful service know-how, with additional expertise in cloud and

Qualifications

• 5 to 7 years of SDLC experience in large-scale apps (front-end and back-end).
• 5+ years with Python and FastAPI.
• 5+ years with Restful web services.

Responsibilities

• Writes, tests, and documents technical work products per standards.
• Raise quality and craftsmanship of products and systems.
• Conduct root cause analysis and prescribe mitigation actions.
• Design self-contained systems and lead implementation of capabilities.
• Coach team in reliability, security, and performance practices.
• Decompose complex designs for maintainable implementations.
• Guide observability and supportability with instrumentation.
• Define test suites ensuring latency and availability targets.
• Lead by example to close open vulnerabilities.
• Mentor teammates along learning journeys.

Skills

Vault/AWS

Python & FastAPI

RESTful APIs

React/TS/JS

OOP design

Terraform

Git/GitHub

Windows/Linux

PostgreSQL ORM

Azure Cloud

Job description

$66.67 - $72

Fort Worth, TX company is seeking a Automation Engineer to join their team for a contract opportunity.

Leverage the latest technology to solve business problems in a collaborative environment at this Fortune 500 transportation giant. Top technical resources are retained on long-term contract engagements.

Responsible for leveraging cutting edge technology to solve business problems by participating in all phases of the development process from inception through transition, advocating the agile process and test-driven development, using object-oriented development tools to analyze, model, design, construct and test reusable objects, and making the codebase better.

Contract Duration: 6 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• HashiCorp Vault/ AWS Secrets Management/ Azure Key Vault experience
• 5 to 7 years of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience designing, developing, and implementing large-scale applications (front-end and back-end development)
• 5+ years with Python and proficiency with FastAPI
• 5+ years with Restful web services

Desired Skills & Experience

• 5+ years with React, TypeScript, JavaScript
• Proficiency in object-oriented design techniques and principles?
• 3+ years with Terraform and Vault
• 3+ years of professional, design, and open-source experience?
• 3+ years with git and GitHub
• 3+ years of working in Windows and Linux operating systems (cloud, midrange, distributed), including shell scripting
• Proficient w/ database and persistence frameworks: PostgreSQL, Object/Relational Mapping, Query performance tuning?
• Proficient with Cloud platform such as Azure

What You Will Be Doing

• Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (e.g., code, scripts, processes) according to organizational standards and practices
• Devotes time to raising the quality and craftsmanship of products and systems
• Conducts root cause analysis to identify domain level problems and prescribes action items to mitigate
• Designs self-contained systems within a team's domain, and leads implementations of significant capabilities in existing systems
• Coaches team members in the execution of techniques to improve reliability, resiliency, security, and performance
• Decomposes intricate and interconnected designs into implementations that can be effectively built and maintained by less experienced engineers
• Anticipates trouble areas in systems under development and guides the team in instrumentation practices to ensure observability and supportability
• Defines test suites and instrumentation that ensures targets for latency and availability are being consistently met in production
• Leads through example by prioritizing the closure of open vulnerabilities
• Evaluates potential attack surfaces in systems under development, identifies best practices to mitigate, and guides teams in their implementation
• Leads team in the identification of small batches of work to delivery the highest value quickly
• Ensures reuse is a first class consideration in all team implementations and is a passionate advocate for broad reusability
• Formally mentors teammates and helps guide them to and along needed learning journeys
• Observes their environment and identifies opportunities for introducing new approaches to problems

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.