Automation Engineer

Automation Engineer, SRE

Locations: Iselin, NJ/Charlotte, NC/Chandler, AZ (Hybrid)
Duration- 1 year
Pay- $65-$70/Hr with $5NP Fee

Job Profile Summary:

• General Engineering: Covers Principal Engineering jobs which design and perform engineering solutions on computer hardware, software, and networking tools to meet the organization's needs.
• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Systems Operations Engineering.
• Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale or longer-term Systems Operations Engineering challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables. Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.
• Required Qualifications: 5+ years of Systems Engineering or Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

Job Description:

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available infrastructure systems (compute, storage, networking).
• Monitor system performance and proactively address reliability issues.
• Manage capacity planning and disaster recovery strategies.
• Partner with application developers to design scalable and resilient architectures.
• Provide infrastructure guidance during application design and deployment phases.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and integrate infrastructure automation into development workflows.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi.
• Automate operational tasks and improve deployment processes.
• Build and maintain observability tools (monitoring, logging, alerting).
• Lead incident response efforts and post-mortem analysis.
• Implement and refine runbooks and escalation procedures.
• Drive improvements based on incident learnings.
• Ensure infrastructure adheres to security best practices and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with InfoSec teams to implement controls and monitor vulnerabilities.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, or SRE roles.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD).