Automation Engineer

Fort Worth, TX company is seeking an 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.

About the role

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

Responsibilities

• 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 deliver 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

Requirements

• 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

Skills

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

Posted By: Jay Aguiar