Senior Automation Engineer

SENIOR AUTOMATION ENGINEER - BASEL - 100%

Experis is the global leader in professional resourcing and project-based workforce solutions. Our suite of services range from interim and permanent recruitment to managed services and consulting, enabling businesses to achieve their goals. We accelerate organisational growth by attracting, assessing and placing specialised professional talent.

For our international client based in Basel, Experis is currently looking for a Senior Automation Engineer for a contracting position of, at least, 1 year.

General information:

- Start date: 01.01.2018
- End date: 31.12.2018
- Work location: Basel
- Workload: 100%

Tasks & Responsibilities:

- Developing and maintaining a portfolio of automation tools leveraging several technologies.
- Responsible to align the technology solutions with business requirements to ensure customer success.
- Responsible for maintaining knowledge of the IT industry and different technical solutions.
- Manage technical evaluations, POCs and make technology recommendations
- Provide technical leadership to other development teams to build collaborative solutions.
- Effectively gather requirements from all appropriate sources
- Analyze existing solutions to understand existing performance and functionality
- Develop clear and accurate documentation of the existing solutions and requirements
- Develop technical solutions that meet the customer requirements, meet security baselines, are cost effective, align with our overall technical roadmap, and integrate well with the existing infrastructure
- Document technical solutions, drive consensus around these with effective communication and outreach.
- Help develop project schedules and budgets

You bring for this role the following qualifications:

- Minimum 5 years' working experience in any of the following roles
- Minimum 3 Years developing technical solutions for automation
- Expertise with the following technology areas (must have):
- Experience with the following (should have)
- Experienced working on cross-functional teams/projects (on time, on spec, on quality and on budget)
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively to peers
- Strong hands-on personality, results-oriented, pragmatic, high quality standards, ability to multi-task
- Detail oriented, thorough, complete
- Experience in delivering large scale, secure and reliable services
- Experience with FOSS software solutions and integrating open source software.
- Systems Engineer or Architect
- Systems Automation/Tools Developer/DevOps Engineer
- Cloud/Virtualization Engineer
- Virtualization: VMware, ESX, vCOPS
- Automation: vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestrator, Chef, Jenkins
- Scripting: Ruby, Javascript,Python, PowerShell
- Cloud technologies: AWS components
- Management: Solarwinds, ELK,
- Operating systems: Linux (RHEL/CentOS), Windows Server
- Utilities and Tools: DNS, LDAP, AD, Kickstart, YUM, Bitbucket, Git, IPAM (Infoblox)
- Willing to travel (globally)
- Fluency in English (knowledge of additional languages is an advantage)
- Scientific Background in Biology, Chemistry will be an advantage
- Experience in other Pharmaceutical, Academic or Biotech company will be an advantage

Interested in this opportunity?

Kindly send us your CV today through the link in the advert. However should you have any questions please contact Stéphanie Vogt.

Even though this position may not be the perfect fit for you, please reach out to us, as we have hundreds of open positions at Experis IT across Switzerland.