IT Engineer (Distributed Automation Engineer)

Location: Merrifield, VA | Employment Type: Contract

About the role

This position involves implementing, maintaining, and supporting distributed systems and automation platforms. The role is hybrid with a preference for HDQ/GPO but may consider remote candidates. Candidates should have experience in designing and updating automation and web applications using various programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Implement and support distributed systems and automation platforms.
• Provide consulting services to clients across various disciplines and technologies.
• Design, build, test, and update reusable automations and web applications.
• Engage with technology teams to reengineer processes for automation and web applications.
• Drive continuous process improvements and standardization.
• Establish invocation channels for orchestrated services.
• Develop thorough technical documentation including diagrams.
• Partner with technology teams to onboard processes to orchestration platforms.
• Design and implement highly available automation using orchestration platforms.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to advance the orchestration platform.
• Automate and orchestrate repeatable administration tasks to improve reliability.
• Advocate for web applications and orchestration platforms to increase adoption.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Strong knowledge of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Experience in PHP programming and web application development.
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages like Python, PHP, Java, and more.
• Experience with Windows and Linux/Unix platforms and database administration.

Skills

• JavaScript
• HTML5
• CSS3
• PHP
• Python
• Java
• PowerShell
• Perl
• VBScript
• Database Administration

Pay

$70.00‑$80.00 per hour