Automation Engineer

Location: On-Site/Hybrid (Eagan, MN)

Client: USPS CIO - Eagan

Conversion Salary: Not to exceed $150k

Notes: The work location for this role is Eagan, MN. The client allows for remote work 2 or 3 days a week (once the employee is acclimated to the team/work). This is a backfill and we have another Automation Engineer working in this same group.

Basic Qualifications:

• Strong Experience of automation/orchestration using the following: Ansible, Ansible Tower, Terraform, YAML

• Fluency in at least one scripting language (Python, Perl, Ruby or equivalent)

• Basic understanding of modern operating systems and network technologies sufficient to automate associated processes.

• Ability to troubleshoot equipment problems and perform complex system tests

• Develop and maintain accurate documentation for internal procedures and services

• Ability to automate solutions to repetitive problems/tasks

• Strong background in shell scripting

• Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services

• Integration of Git, in continuous deployment

• Strong experience with DevOps automation tools like Docker, Ansible.

• Experience with DevOps monitoring tools like Nagios, Splunk.

• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service

• Creative thinking skills

• Detail-oriented personality

• Ability to communicate well to other members of the development team

6 mos to perm

Desired Skills:

• Significant experience with networking equipment and the APIs they offer

• Strong understanding of cloud networking at scale

• Ability to break down complex networking concepts and present them in a concise way