Python Centric Automation Engineer

Trident Consulting is looking for a "Python Centric Automation Engineer @ Raritan, NJ" for one of our clients.

Job Title: Python Centric Automation Engineer

Job Location: Raritan, NJ(Day 1 Onsite)

Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

• Develop robust reusable and scalable Python automation scripts and microservices for use across infrastructure provisioning monitoring ETL pipelines and platform integrations
• Engineer custom Python modules to interface with RESTGraphQL APIs eg Azure AWS Kubernetes ServiceNow GitHub Jenkins Databricks JIRA
• Leverage Python to automate event processing remediations health checks and governance rule enforcements across hybrid systems
• Implement automated error handling logging frameworks retry strategies and unitintegration test harnesses for all scripts and automation routines
• Integrate Python with enterprise messaging platforms eg Kafka Azure Event Grid RabbitMQ for realtime eventdriven automation pipelines
• DevOps CICD Orchestration
• Design and manage enterprisegrade CICD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Jenkins GitLab CI enabling secure traceable deployment workflows for infrastructure and application layers
• Implement GitOpsstyle workflows for declarative infrastructure management policyascode and automated environment configuration
• Integrate automated tests unit security compliance smoke and approval gates into buildrelease pipelines for both infrastructure and microservices
• Enable bluegreen deployments canary releases and rollback strategies using Helm ArgoCD or Spinnaker in Kubernetes and containerized environments
• Engineer automated artifact versioning dependency scanning Snyk Whitesource and code signing protocols
• Infrastructure as Code Cloud Automation
• Automate provisioning and management of cloud resources using Terraform Pulumi or Bicep with reusable modules for Azure AWS or Google Cloud Platform
• Design environmentagnostic automation layers for resource orchestration cost tagging autoscaling and service discovery
• Implement configuration management with tools such as Ansible Chef or Puppet ensuring consistency across ephemeral and persistent workloads
• Integrate secrets management solutions eg HashiCorpVault Azure Key Vault into automation workflows for secure credential handling
• Monitoring Observability SelfHealing
• Build automation triggers based on monitoring s and log analytics using tools such as Prometheus Grafana ELK Azure Monitor Datadog or Splunk
• Implement autoremediation scripts eg resource restart scaling failover notification suppression with Python or YAMLbased playbooks
• Integrate automation scripts with incident management tools PagerDuty OpsGenie ServiceNow ITSM for closedloop incident response
• Security Compliance Automation
• Automate vulnerability scanning image compliance and infrastructure hardening using tools like Trivy AquaSec OpenSCAP Checkov and integrate findings into CICD gates
• Enforce least privilege IAM policies role automation and drift detection across cloud platforms
• Design auditproof automation logs and lineage tracking to support ISO 27001 SOC2 HIPAA or FedRAMP certifications

Mandatory Skills: Apache Spark,Java,Athena,Aurora,Python,RDS,Redshift,AWS Glue,AWS Lambda,AWS S3,Scala,ANSI-SQL,Aws Step Functions

About Trident: Trident Consulting is an award-winning IT/engineering staffing company founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Ramon, CA. We specialize in placing high-quality vetted technology and engineering professionals in contract and full-time roles. Trident's commitment is to deliver the best and brightest individuals in the industry for our clients' toughest requirements.