Cloud Automation Engineer - NE III

Company: SPECTRUM
Location: Coppell
Posted on: September 24, 2022

Job Description:

The Charter Technical Engineering Center (CTEC) facilities in Englewood, CO oversee the design and architecture of Charter's multi-billion dollar network infrastructure. We investigate, select, develop, and integrate technologies and solutions that meet the needs of the company for short, medium and long term initiatives. This includes the delivery of the technology plan and future architecture for Voice, Video, Data, Optical, Commercial, Cloud, CPE, Network and Access.

JOB SUMMARY
This role collaborates with team members on various cloud technologies, and recommends cloud infrastructure automation solutions. Works with various automation tools to automate the deployment of VM's in a public or private cloud. Works with various configuration management tools to manage a consistent state for VM's. Interfaces with other teams to collect and define project requirements for automating and deploying their application or technology stack. Bridge the gap between various different organizations within Charter by leveraging automation tooling and concepts (NTG, Ops, IT, etc.).

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.

Designs, implements, integrates, automate, monitors, enhances and troubleshoots systems in assigned areas.

Analyzes and revises existing system logic difficulties and documentation as necessary.

Tests and reviews system designs.

Provides Engineering Technical support and guidance to regional personnel and ensure all technical integration, changes, standards and documentation are met.

Adheres to industry specific local, state, and federal regulations, as applicable.

Performs other duties as requested by the manager.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Skills/Abilities and Knowledge
Ability to develop automation for cloud lifecycle management and operational improvements using one of the tools listed
Good understanding of object-oriented design
Experience with API Integration (especially Rest)
Ability to develop programs to interact with APIs in one of the following languages: Python, Golang
Experience with CI/CD (Git, Gitlab, Jenkins), runners and webhooks.
Knowledge of Lifecycle Management of Artifacts (e.g. Artifactory)
Understanding of unit tests and other QA best practices in a CI/CD environment
Experience with workflow engines in a development or user capacity (Stackstorm, Itential, Ansible Tower, etc.)
Experience with automation technologies to automate repeatable tasks - CLI scripts, Ansible, Python, Terraform, etc.
Knowledge of cloud technologies private or public (e.g. AWS, Azure, etc.)
Basic Linux shell knowledge required
Experience with one or more config management tools (e.g. Chef, Ansible)
Ability to perform duties in a very fast pace agile environment and ability to learn new technologies quickly

Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience

Related Work Experience / Number of Years
Engineering work experience / 5 years

Preferred Qualifications and Skills
Knowledge of infrastructure onboarding, PXE booting, or other methods of provisioning servers
Understanding of modeling data/network/info (e.g. Json, Yaml, YANG)
Understanding of templates, including Jinja2
Expected to establish and maintain proficiency on emerging technologies through self-study and on-the-job training
Escalate issues and defects as necessary to vendors and manage the resolution
Experience working collaboratively with architects and peers on research and design efforts
Good understanding of all virtualization types
Basic OS and database administration knowledge
Good networking experience, and understanding of data center, cloud, or service provider networks
Passion for cloud software, tooling and automation; comfort with command line tools and scripting

WORKING CONDITIONS
Hybrid Office Environment - 3 days in office/2 days remote
ENE-3 316784BR

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