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)
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 InformationAll your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Please send your resume in Word format only.
Skills Required
- Strong innovative and analytical ability with extensive systems implementation experience
- Team player with excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to operationalize and support what you build
- Competent to work under general direction on complex projects
- May require scheduled and unscheduled off-hours work (on-call duties)
- Strong systems integration and deployment skills
- Expertise with scripting languages: Powershell, VB, JavaScript, Python, Linux Shell Scripting
- Understanding of error handling, debugging, and conflict resolution
- Experience with Data Center/Server automation technologies such as VMware vRealize Automation & vRealize Orchestration or similar
- Understanding of full Virtual Machine lifecycle management from provisioning to decommissioning
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or related discipline
- Experience with VMware vRealize Automation 7.x and vRealize Orchestrator 6.x+
- vSphere 5.5 & 6.x administration experience
- Experience with distributed automation/orchestration architectures
- Experience automating/integrating to APIs (REST/CLI/XMLRPC/SOAP/WEBDAV/SSH)
- Experience with JSON and/or XML
- AWS EC2 integration experience
- Experience automating deployments in VMware NSX 6.x
- Experience in a DevOps environment
- Ability to document and articulate 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, Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD tools: Jenkins, TeamCity
- Experience with configuration management: Chef, Puppet, Vagrant, Ansible
- Experience with Cloud Foundry or cloud-native applications
- Experience managing, deploying, or integrating with OpenStack
- Software development experience
- Experience working in an Agile methodology
What We Do
Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada, and one of North America's leading staffing and contract workforce services providers. The company specializes in connecting IT talent with opportunity, delivering flexible IT staffing solutions and professional services to help organizations overcome technology gaps and drive transformation.
