Beschreibung
For our client in Basel we are looking for a Senior Automation Engineer for a 12-month project.
Duration:
Location: Basel
Workload: 100%
ROLE PURPOSE
- The Automation Engineer is responsible to quickly and accurately analyze and understand the automation needs, create a technical solution based upon deep technology expertise, industry knowledge, automation experience and creative, collaborative thinking.
- This role is responsible for defining and designing solutions, documenting and communicating these solutions and building consensus around the solution.
- This role requires technical expertise in multiple automation and management platforms such as: Chef, Puppet, vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), Solarwinds, Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana (ELK).
MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES
Develop automated workflows for the Informatics infrastructure
- Based upon experience and industry knowledge, the Automation Engineer is responsible for developing and maintaining a portfolio of automation tools leveraging several technologies, primarily vRA, vRO and Chef.
- The Automation Engineer is responsible to align the technology solutions with business requirements to ensure customer success.
Provide technical/industry knowledge to guide solution development
- The Automation Engineer should have experience building and deploying automated solutions.
- Responsible for maintaining knowledge of the IT industry and different technical solutions.
- Manage technical evaluations, POCs and make technology recommendations
Provide technical leadership
- Provide technical leadership to other development teams to build collaborative solutions.
Effectively Analyze Technical Problems
- Effectively gather requirements from all appropriate sources
- Analyze existing solutions to understand existing performance and functionality
- Develop clear and accurate documentation of the existing solutions and requirements
Develop Technical Solutions
- Develop technical solutions that meet the customer requirements, meet security baselines, are cost effective, align with our overall technical roadmap, and integrate well with the existing infrastructure
- Document technical solutions, drive consensus around these with effective communication and outreach.
- Help develop project schedules and budgets
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
- Minimum 5 years' working experience in any of the following roles
- Systems Engineer or Architect
- Systems Automation/Tools Developer/DevOps Engineer
- Cloud/Virtualization Engineer
- Minimum 3 Years developing technical solutions for automation
- Expertise with the following technology areas (must have):
- Virtualization: VMware, ESX, vCOPS
- Automation: vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestrator, Chef, Jenkins
- Scripting: Ruby, Javascript,Python, PowerShell
- Experience with the following (should have)
- Cloud technologies: AWS components
- Management: Solarwinds, ELK,
- Operating systems: Linux (RHEL/CentOS), Windows Server
- Utilities and Tools: DNS, LDAP, AD, Kickstart, YUM, Bitbucket, Git, IPAM (Infoblox)
- Experienced working on cross-functional teams/projects (on time, on spec, on quality and on budget)
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively to peers
- Strong hands-on personality, results-oriented, pragmatic, high quality standards, ability to multi-task
- Detail oriented, thorough, complete
- Experience in delivering large scale, secure and reliable services
- Experience with FOSS software solutions and integrating open source software
- Willing to travel (globally)
- Fluency in English (knowledge of additional languages is an advantage)
- Scientific Background in Biology, Chemistry will be an advantage
- Experience in other Pharmaceutical, Academic or Biotech company will be an advantage
For further details please contact Beata Arciszewska:
email: (see below)