Sr. Automation Engineer

Insight Global; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global in Columbus, OH is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to design, develop, and implement automation solutions for infrastructure engineering teams. You will lead medium to large projects across multiple teams, guiding ideas through design, vetting, pitching, building, and metrics reporting.

The role requires strong communication and mentoring skills, experience with Ansible, Python, PowerShell, OpenShift, and container orchestration, plus the ability to articulate value and drive

Qualifications

• Experience delivering large automation projects across multiple teams.
• Able to design and mentor others through complex automation solutions.
• Proficient with Ansible, Python, and PowerShell in regulated/infrastructure environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement automation solutions for infrastructure teams.
• Guide projects from idea through design, vetting, pitching, building, and reporting metrics.
• Provide production support with accurate issue identification and customer/vendor communication.
• Mentor other infrastructure engineers to expand automation capabilities.

Skills

Ansible

Python

PowerShell

OpenShift

Containers

Mentoring

Tools

OpenShift

Docker

Job description

Job Description

The Automation Engineer Sr acts as a resource to decision, design and lead on medium to large automation solutions within the infrastructure/operations tech spaces. The Automation Engineer Sr’s primary duty involves design work, specifically designing tailored solutions to meet specific client requests using automation technologies. This role is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing automation solutions for our Infrastructure Engineering teams. This role is also responsible for maintaining and supporting questions and processes related to Orchestration for Infrastructure Engineering teams as well as providing guidance and helping to establish Automation standards intended to streamline the ability for other teams to pursue building automation.

A good candidate should be comfortable guiding efforts from initial idea through design, vetting, pitching, building, completion and metric reporting. This role has an expectation of both direct automation development skills and the soft skills to effectively communicate and mentor other infrastructure engineers in building out their own development knowledge. The ability to distinguish between automation needs and process needs and solution on both is integral for success in this position.

Detailed Description

• Scale of work focus: Medium to large projects that frequently span multiple teams.
• Presentation skills expected: director level and medium groups that may involve a range of teams.
• Ability to identify value opportunities and assist in quantifying value in new initiatives brought forward.
• Communicates complex technical problems and solutions in articulate and easily understood way.
• Recognizes new value-drivers in existing efforts and how those value-drivers may be aligned tactically with other work initiatives.
• Clearly grasps gaps, risks and concerns related to current efforts and proactively adjusts plans as needed to avoid impact to expected effort delivery.
• Builds and delivers on visions for segment (this may encompass a range of projects to achieve a larger goal) that clearly communicates a larger strategy in approach to implementation with minimal supervision.
• Able to clearly express, train and drive team/segment vision goals.
• Provides effective production support including accurate problem identification, ticket documentation and customer/vendor dialogue.
• Dissects complex situations and refocuses on critical technology tasks.
• Extensive experience in identifying, verifying, vetting and testing hardware/software requirements for proposed automation and orchestrations solutions.
• Identifies and pursues learning and upskilling opportunities relevant to technologies, products and needs anticipated within their technical space.
• Other duties as assigned.

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Skills and Requirements

• Working with development, confidence and knowledge to understand best practices and help drive those forward & guide others and advise recommendations on how to use those principals moving forward. Someone who has experience working on larger projects, coming up with solutions that are more complicated.
• People say they are confident with code but they cant deliver technically at the level we need them to and when we ask them to think about a design or solution they don’t have the confidence or skills to be able to accomplish those skills.
• Automation tools – Ansible (built on python & PowerShell) Ansible & Python is preferred. We have some ruby and JavaScript but much less frequent.
• Prefer to find someone who is adjacent to our background, someone who comes from a regulated/infrastructure environment or larger environment.
• Event management experience would be amazing, Openshift experience. In general experience with containers is useful**
• Interview availability – ASAP – 2 stage interview. Stay away from direct hire. Strong candidates should have broad automation experience across multiple domains rather than narrow specialization.