Company Description Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.
With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.
Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:
- Application Development
- Project Management
- Quality Assurance
- Business/Systems Analysis
- Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence
- Infrastructure & Network Services
- Risk Management & Compliance
- Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
- Security & Privacy
Specialties• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
- Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
- ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
- Flextrack (Vendor Management System)
Job Description
Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer On behalf of our client, Procom Services is searching for a Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer for a contract opportunity in Dallas, TX. Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer Job Details Qualified candidates will be responsible for developing automation/orchestration within a private cloud environment. The candidate will also work with development teams to integrate with external systems to close the loop on a fully automated dev-to-production release cycle. This position requires a dynamic and enthusiastic individual who enjoys working in fast-paced environments. The ideal candidate works well with independent tactical assignments while collaborating with the broader team to scope to strategic goals. This position is not a direct coder role, rather an operations focus to delivering virtual infrastructure programmatically within a VMWare vRealize Automation framework. Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer Mandatory Skills
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Strong innovative and analytical ability with extensive systems implementation experience
- Must be a team player and have excellent written and oral communication skills
- Must have the ability to operationalize and support what you build
- Must be fully competent to work under general direction on complex projects. The candidate will be delegated direct assignments to deliver.
- May require scheduled and unscheduled off-hours work (on-call duties)
- Strong systems integration and deployment skills
- Expertise experience with scripting languages such as: Powershell, VB, JavaScript, Python, & Linux Shell Scripting
- Strong understanding of error handling, debugging, and conflict resolution
- Established experience with Data Center/Server automation technologies such as VMware vRealize Automation & vRealize Orchestration or similar enterprise solutions
- Understanding of full Virtual Machine lifecycle management from provisioning to decommissioning
The following skills are preferred:
- Experience with VMWare vRealize Automation 7.x + vRealize Orchestrator 6.x+
- Experience with vSphere 5.5 & 6.x Administration
- Experience with distributed automation/orchestration architectures
- Experience with automating/integrating to an API – REST and/or CLI methods, XMLRPC, SOAP, WEBDAV, SSH
- Experience with JSON and/or XML
- AWS EC2 –integration with EC2 API's
- Experience with automating deployments in VMware NSX 6.x
- Experience in a DevOps environment strongly desired
- Demonstrated experience in documenting and articulating complex system designs
- Experience with load balancers such as F5 Big-IP LTM and GTM
- Functional LINUX and Windows Administration skills
- Experience with container technologies – Docker, Docker Swarm, Kurbernetes
- Experience with continuous integration/deployment technologies – Jenkins, TeamCity
- Experience with configuration management technologies – Chef, Puppet, Vagrant, Ansible
- Experience with Cloud Foundry or cloud native apps a plus
- Experience with managing, deploying, or integrating with OpenStack
- Software development experience a plus
- Experience working in an AGILE methodology
EDUCATION:
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer Start Date ASAP Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer Assignment Length 11+ months Additional Information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Please send your resume in Word format only.