Senior Automation Engineer - Architect - Vmware - Cloud - Switzerland

SENIOR AUTOMATION ENGINEER, required to work on a project within a major Pharmaceutical company in Switzerland.

ROLE PURPOSE

- The Automation Engineer is responsible to quickly and accurately analyze and understand the automation needs, create a technical solution based upon deep technology expertise, industry knowledge, automation experience and creative, collaborative thinking.
- This role is responsible for defining and designing solutions, documenting and communicating these solutions and building consensus around the solution.
- This role requires technical expertise in multiple automation and management platforms such as: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)
- This role requires technical expertise in Scripting and coding tools like PowerShell, Javascript (JS), bash etc.

MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES

DEVELOP AUTOMATED WORKFLOWS FOR THE INFORMATICS INFRASTRUCTURE

- Based upon experience and industry knowledge, the Automation Engineer is responsible for developing and maintaining a portfolio of automation tools leveraging several technologies, primarily vRA, vRO.
- The Automation Engineer is responsible to align the technology solutions with business requirements to ensure customer success.

PROVIDE TECHNICAL/INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE TO GUIDE SOLUTION DEVELOPMENT

- The Automation Engineer should have experience building and deploying automated solutions.
- Responsible for maintaining knowledge of the IT industry and different technical solutions.
- Manage technical evaluations, POCs and make technology recommendations

PROVIDE TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP

- Provide technical leadership to other development teams to build collaborative solutions.

EFFECTIVELY ANALYZE TECHNICAL PROBLEMS

- 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

- 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

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

- 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)
- Systems Engineer or Architect
- Systems Automation/Tools Developer/DevOps Engineer
- Cloud/Virtualization Engineer
- Automation: vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestrator or any one Automation/Orchestrator tool.
- Scripting: Javascript, bash, PowerShell
- Cloud technologies: AWS components
- Operating systems: Linux (RHEL/CentOS), Windows Server
- Infrastructure: Knowledge of infrastructure environment: Server, Storage, Network, Database, Middleware, etc.
- 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
- Fluency in English (knowledge of additional languages is an advantage)

LOCATION: Basel - Switzerland
DURATION: Asap - 31.12.2018 (evtl. option for extension)

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