Infrastructure Automation Engineer (vSphere/Python)

Top Skills:

1 Strong python coder/developer

2 Ansible

3 VMware vSphere and/or Aria is a nice to have

Need someone who has coded as part of an enterprise team using agile methodologies.

Some info about the team:

This team owns the engineering and architecture forinternal cloud platform which is all VMware currently. They also own the engineering and architecture for the full product suite of Aria and use Aria automation as their day 1 and day 2 provisioning.

Currently, the team is working on certifying the latest versions of the vSphere product platform and working with hardware engineering on their next generation of hardware offerings. They are a large vSAN shop and are focused on expanding using the newer capabilities that VMware is releasing.

Job Details:

• Help create a best-in-class software development environment that can be replicated across the organization.
• Candidates must have 5+ years of enterprise scale programming in Python, ideally working with vSphere, vRealize Suite, NSX-T platform APIs at scale. Work collaboratively as a part of the Software Engineering team to enable the development, configuration, and operation of key systems and applications.
• Streamline our development operations and processes, standardize environments, as well as build and maintain tools for development, automated testing, regression, deployment, monitoring and operations.
• Will be responsible for automation and streamlining of multiple vSphere/NSX-T/vRealize Suite development operations and processes. Build and maintain automated tools for deployment, monitoring and day to day vSphere, NSX-T, vRealize Suite operations. Create and present design and development progress to peers and stakeholders as part of end of sprint ceremonies
• 5+ years of experience of software development in building enterprise-level software.
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Expertise in Ansible, including experience with its architecture and writing custom modules.
• Design, develop, and implement automation solutions using Python and Ansible.
• Participate in agile software development processes and contribute to project planning and estimation. Familiarity with project management tool such as JIRA.
• Work with development team to integrate automation solution into a workflow.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Continuously improve the automation process and tools to ensure maximum efficiency and reliability.
• Understand of software development life cycle and participate in SDLC process and contribute to the design, development, and testing phases.
• Write unit tests and perform system integration testing to ensure the quality and reliability of automation solution.
• Experience with CI/CD tool such as Jenkins, including writing deployment scripts to support customized builds and deployment environments.
• Hands-on experience with Git and version control practices.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, ability to write documentation for end user and present designs to peers and user stakeholders.
• Experience with customizing vSphere, vRealize Suite, NSX-T deployment automation and configuration automation to specifications
• Production experience using vSphere APIs, vRealize Suite APIs, NSX-T APIs
• Production experience with vSphere, vRealize Suite, and NSX-T products
• Understanding of ITIL processes is a plus
• A solid understanding network management principles is a plus