Automation Engineer
What you’ll do:
- Design, build, and maintain DDI Automations: Develop robust automation solutions for DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management, ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Develop dashboards and alerting: Create and maintain dashboards and alerting mechanisms to monitor DDI automation health and performance.
- Champion engineering best practices: Establish and continuously improve development standards, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and monitoring tools.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with development engineers, stakeholders, and customers to ensure automations are production-ready, stable, and aligned with business needs.
- Drive innovation: Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation, proactively addressing challenges and optimizing workflows.
What you’ll need to succeed in the role:
- Automation & Container Orchestration: Proven expertise in building automation solutions and working with container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
- DevOps Mindset: Strong track record in DevOps, including hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability tools.
- API & Gateway Experience: Solid understanding of REST API design principles and experience configuring API gateways (such as Kong).
- Python Development: Advanced Python programming skills are essential.
- Infrastructure as Code: Experience implementing Ansible pipelines is highly desirable.
- Version Control: Proficiency with distributed version control systems and repository hosting services (e.g., GitHub) is a must.
- Networking Fundamentals: Good grasp of IP addressing, subnetting, routing, DNS, and DHCP fundamentals.
- Problem-Solving & Communication: Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to support large-scale, mission-critical platforms.
- Growth Mindset: Eagerness to learn new skills, adapt to emerging technologies, and collaborate with colleagues to drive positive outcomes.
- DDI Platform Experience (Advantageous): Experience working with VitalQIP, Infoblox, or EfficientIP platforms is highly advantageous.