ApTask
Automation Lead
ApTask, New York, NY, United States
About Client:
The client provides information technology (IT) services, including business outsourcing, infrastructure technology, and application services. The application service offered by the company includes application development, maintenance, and support. The markets served by the company are financial services and insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, government, transportation, communications, and consumer and retail industries.
Salary Range: $170K-$180K/Annum
Job Description:
About ApTask:
ApTask is a leading global provider of workforce solutions and talent acquisition services, dedicated to shaping the future of work. As an African American-owned and Veteran-certified company, ApTask offers a comprehensive suite of services, including staffing and recruitment solutions, managed services, IT consulting, and project management. With a focus on excellence, collaboration, and innovation, ApTask provides unparalleled opportunities for professional growth and development. As a member of the ApTask team, you will have the chance to connect businesses with top-tier professionals, optimize workforce performance, and drive success across diverse industries. Join us at ApTask and be part of our mission to empower organizations to thrive while fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.
Candidate Data Collection Disclaimer:
At ApTask, we prioritize safeguarding your privacy. As part of our recruitment process, certain Personally Identifiable Information (PII) may be requested by our clients for verification and application purposes. Rest assured, we strictly adhere to confidentiality standards and comply with all relevant data protection laws. Please note that we only collect the necessary information as specified by each client and do not request sensitive details during the initial stages of recruitment.
If you have any concerns or queries about your personal information, please feel free to contact our compliance team at businessexcellence@aptask.com .
The client provides information technology (IT) services, including business outsourcing, infrastructure technology, and application services. The application service offered by the company includes application development, maintenance, and support. The markets served by the company are financial services and insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, government, transportation, communications, and consumer and retail industries.
Salary Range: $170K-$180K/Annum
Job Description:
- We are actively seeking a seasoned Hands-on Automation Lead Engineer who demonstrates initiative, innovation, and strong analytical and problem-solving skills. As an Automation Lead, you will develop and oversee tools and workflows to automate repetitive tasks and prevent incidents.
- Your role involves creating and maintaining operational runbooks for automation scripts, leading a team, and working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Process Analysis and Optimization: Collaborate with Operational Leads to identify and analyse use cases suitable for automation. Conduct process assessments and document detailed requirements for automation solutions.
- Integration Analysis: Analyse existing system integrations to ensure seamless integration while building new automation solutions.
- Develop Design Documents: Create comprehensive design documents that outline the automation solution architecture and processes.
- Implement Automation by being hands on and working with the team on the ground as a Lead developer, coach and mentor. This person would be a hands on Lead Engineer, who would be writing the scripts for Automation as well.
- Development and Implementation: Design and oversee the implementation of automation solutions using Ansible, Python, Shell, Amelia. Ensure the creation of efficient and scalable automation workflows to optimize business processes. Utilize advanced scripting techniques to develop and enhance automation workflows and integrate various systems. Lead and contribute across all phases of the SDLC (planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support).
- Quality and Culture: Foster a Quality First, Zero Defects culture and advocate for the Shift Left approach.
- Maintenance and Support: Provide ongoing support and maintenance for deployed automation solutions. Monitor performance and implement necessary updates and improvements.
- Collaboration and Communication: Work with various teams, including Operations, engineering, and product management. Communicate issues and dependencies to stakeholders effectively.
- Mentorship: Mentor and guide the development team to enhance their skills and ensure best practices are followed.
- Strong understanding of large-scale distributed systems and application architecture.
- Experience in configuring Workflow Orchestrations using AIOPS tools like Amelia.
- Experience in building automation orchestration using Ansible Automation Platform, Python, shell scripts and RPA Tools.
- Exposure to Application Performance Monitoring tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, ITSM tools, ServiceNow Automation, Batch Processing tools like Autosys.
- Proven ability to design solutions for logical problems and develop or code automation scripts.
- Expertise in designing robust processes for complex problems.
- Ability to recognize relationships and interdependencies between systems and processes.
- Strong aptitude for learning new technologies.
- Should have driven operational efficiency & Operational metrics improvements thru automation
- Should have Application Support background
- Should have proactive problem management
- Handson experience on Ansible or python.
- Exposure to any ITSM tools preferably ServiceNow
- Hands on experience on any Observability tools like - Splunk, AppD, Grafana etc..
- Exposure in implementing Event correlation like Big panda
- Hands on experience integrating ITSM tool with AIOPs like IPSoft/Amellia
- Experience in driving SRE transformations
About ApTask:
ApTask is a leading global provider of workforce solutions and talent acquisition services, dedicated to shaping the future of work. As an African American-owned and Veteran-certified company, ApTask offers a comprehensive suite of services, including staffing and recruitment solutions, managed services, IT consulting, and project management. With a focus on excellence, collaboration, and innovation, ApTask provides unparalleled opportunities for professional growth and development. As a member of the ApTask team, you will have the chance to connect businesses with top-tier professionals, optimize workforce performance, and drive success across diverse industries. Join us at ApTask and be part of our mission to empower organizations to thrive while fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.
Candidate Data Collection Disclaimer:
At ApTask, we prioritize safeguarding your privacy. As part of our recruitment process, certain Personally Identifiable Information (PII) may be requested by our clients for verification and application purposes. Rest assured, we strictly adhere to confidentiality standards and comply with all relevant data protection laws. Please note that we only collect the necessary information as specified by each client and do not request sensitive details during the initial stages of recruitment.
If you have any concerns or queries about your personal information, please feel free to contact our compliance team at businessexcellence@aptask.com .